Includes bibliographical references.

Cultural and religious contexts -- Teaching about Abraham -- The theme of justice -- Muslim women in the Middle East -- A new high school social studies class: the Middle East, beginning with Turkey -- Europe and America in the Middle East: colonialism, neo-colonialism, intervention, terrorism and war -- Imbedded: teaching the Iraq War -- Teaching the Palestine/Israel conflict -- Teaching Moroccan literature of migration -- Literature by and about Muslim and Middle Eastern immigrants in the West -- Teaching Muslim students -- Reading and teaching literature in translation -- Connecting British and American literature to the Middle East.