Speakers Bureau Program at the Middle East Center
The Middle East Center runs a robust Speakers Bureau Program in the greater Philadelphia area. Our Speakers Bureau program aims to help K-12 students and educators expand their knowledge about the Middle East. Between September and November 2014, the Center arranged for four Speakers Bureau visits to schools including Motivation High School and Julia Masterman Middle and High School. Advanced graduate students Alon Tam and Carolyn Brunelle shared their knowledge about the region with K-12 students and their teachers during their visits to these schools.
Just to highlight one of these visits, on September 17, 2014, James Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Pennsylvania, was the guest lecturer for Jake Greenberg’s Modern Middle East class at Moorestown High School. Mr. Greenberg’s course involves a survey of Middle East history from World War I to the war in Iraq. Major themes include: the emergence of nation states after colonialism; long-term historical, technological, and cultural trends in the region; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Islam and the West; and North Africa’s burgeoning societies. Students learn from a number of guest lecturers and take various field trips to experience Middle Eastern life in America.
Mr. James Ryan who researches the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey led a general discussion about the Middle East. For more information on this Speakers Bureau visit please click here and here.