This video offers a brief review of 5 wonderful films that focus on specific topics in modern Latin American History.

This resource is useful for students who can visit rare books in special collections libraries. Teachers and students of book history, literature, and art history might find this resource useful.

This textbook on Ifa, a traditional African religion, was authored by Dr. Will Coleman of the Interdenominational Theological Center. Help and contributions were given by Awo Fa'lokun Fatunmbi, and Oscar Daniel and Brad Ost of the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world. By using biographical and historical detail to support his analysis of some of Cesaire and Walcott's key texts, Allen offers insight into what it means to be a Caribbean writer - looking back to a colonial past, and forward to a global future. This audio recording is part the Interviews on Great Writers series presented by Oxford University Podcasts.

Al-Bab is a portal website designed to introduce non-Arabs to Arab culture by providing links to news sources, country profiles, articles, and a blog on Middle East current events. There are also specific links related to learning Arabic: dictionaries, language classes, textbooks, and other information pertaining to the study of Arabic. A free e-book, The Birth of Modern Yemen, is available for download.

This video explains how and why Fidel Castro supported the MPLA in Angola from 1975 to 2002. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was the largest military confrontation in Africa after World War II. The civil war in Angola was one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century.

Arabalicious is a website full of resources for teachers of Arabic, run by Taoufiq Cherkaoui. The website includes PowerPoints available for download on concepts such as telling time, fruits and vegetables, culture, and basic greetings, to name a few. Worksheets to go along with the PowerPoints are also available for free download. The website further includes pictures that are available with the author's permission and some postings on available jobs for Arabic instructors as per 2012.

This is a textbook for beginning Arabic language learning. The textbook is divided into twelve lessons. Each lesson focuses on an activity and common theme to introduce the basics of Arabic. Each lesson starts with a short video, which you'll be asked to watch. To help you understand the video, each lesson also includes a transcript (in English), a list of vocabulary (with audio clips), and language and grammar notes.

This blog is from an American woman living and working in Saudi Arabia. It includes information about living and working in Saudi Arabia as well as her travels elsewhere in the Middle East. This particular section of the blog includes lessons on Arabic, which are all transliterated. Conversations that are transliterated and translated, vocabulary lists, and cultural information are all included. The lessons include one on bread, one on time and the concept of time, and one on New Year's Resolutions.

In this activity, students will be practicing the home vocabulary with a special focus on how they would use the verbs, استطيع، اعود. They will be having a small discussion with each other asking and answering questions.Can-Do Statements:I recognize most of the “Home” vocabulary to describe my home.I can use both verbs اسْتَطَاعَ، عَادَ conjugated with subject pronouns.I can talk about my favorite spot at my home. 

In this activity, students will be practicing how to talk about themselves after reviewing the possessive pronouns, and then they will read a character card and share information about them.Can-Do Statements:I can talk about myself with a friend/classmate.I can ask and answer questions about work and my favorite activities.I can share my hobby/work/where I live with someone.

In this activity, students will practice Arabic numbers from 1 to 50. they will be able to accurately pronounce them, as well as perform basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) using Arabic numbers.Can-Do Statements:I can recognize and identify Arabic numbers from 1 to 50.I can accurately pronounce Arabic numbers from 1 to 50.I can perform basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) using Arabic numbers.

In this activity, students will practice talking and asking questions with a partner about different middle eastern places. students will also practice asking for directions.Can-Do Statements:I can talk about different places with a friend/classmate.I can ask about different places with someone.I can ask for directions when I need to go somewhere.

In this activity, students will practice talking about their family members, their ages, and what they do. they will also ask questions about family, and talk about their favorite place at home.Can-Do Statements:I can talk about the number of family members and their ages.I can ask others about their family members.I can talk about my favorite place at home and my family's.I can talk about what each of my family members does/work.

In this activity, students will practice the names of the jobs in Arabic, they will practice writing a full sentence describing what a character work. they will also talk about what they want to be in the future, and ask people about their jobs.Can-Do Statements:I can recognize most of the jobs in Arabic.I can say/write a full sentence in Arabic saying what I or someone works.I can talk about what I want to be in the future.I can ask someone about his/her job.

In this activity, students will practice talking about the days of the week, they will also discuss their daily and monthly schedules, and ask others how they spend their weekends.Can-Do Statements:I can talk about my daily schedule.I can recognize the days of the week.I can ask someone “What day is today?”I can ask someone about his/her weekend.

In this activity, students will practice talking about time and movies. They will learn how to read the clock in Arabic, recommend a movie based on someone's preferences, and understand schedules.Can-Do Statements:I can understand the time when announced or shown to me.I can identify movies with the times they take place on a schedule.I can recommend a movie for someone according to his/her preference.

This activity will have different and fun instructions. Students will write, pronounce, and memorize the opposites in Arabic.Can-Do Statements:I can find a picture that describes opposites.I can recognize opposites in Arabic when presented to me.I can write some opposites in Arabic.

In this activity, students will practice kitchen-related vocabulary, and the food preparation steps, and then discuss their preference for places they like to eat at.Can-Do Statements:I can describe the food preparation steps.I can look at pictures in the kitchen vocabulary and identify them.I can talk about where I like to eat the most.