Understanding Middle Eastern Millennials through Literature, Culture, and Media

FAIN: EH-261649-18

Arizona Board of Regents (Tucson, AZ 85721-0073)
Lisa Marie Adeli (Project Director: February 2018 to January 2025)

A one-week institute for 28 college and university faculty on Middle Eastern millennials.

The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is proposing a one-week National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute. The program will serve twenty-eight post-secondary educators, mostly professors at community colleges and small, undergraduate-serving liberal arts colleges, many of them minority-serving institutions. Held at the University of Arizona in Tucson during the first week of August 2019, the institute will explore the theme of "Middle Eastern Millennials through Literature, Culture, and Media." Led by Dr. Maha Nassar, a cultural and intellectual historian of the Arab world, participants will engage in a cross-disciplinary study of Middle East diversity and change through a focus on youth. Co-Director Dr. Lisa Adeli, CMES Director of Educational Outreach, will help with curriculum development and ensure a wide dissemination of the materials created.