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Her book, “Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class” was published by Stanford University Press.
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Unmentionables | Stanford University Press
As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, ...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The set encourages engagement with how colonialism and nationalism reshaped Palestine through the twentieth century.

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Middle East in Historical Context Inquiry Sets Now Available for Classroom Use
As teachers begin the 2025-26 school year, the California History-Social Science Project is proud to announce that there are four new inquiry sets that teachers may now use to teach Middle Eastern and...
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September 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Students trace the intersections of Zionist colonization in Palestine and British imperial rule, while also examining Palestinian claims to political continuity, cultural resilience, and resistance to displacement after 1948.
September 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This set introduces students to the concept of Orientalism and illustrates how Arab Americans contested these stereotypes. Using oral histories, photography, and poetry, the set introduces Arab American immigration history while teaching media literacy related to Arab communities.
September 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The set situates the emergence and early debates over Zionism among Jewish communities, highlighting perspectives often excluded by European-centered narratives on this topic. The set provides historical grounding for classroom discussions of nationalism, empire, and identity.
September 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Through structured interpretation of court poetry, visual arts, and chronicles, students gain an understanding of the commonalities premodern elites shared, contextualizing later studies of political absolutism and revolutionary change.
September 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Based on a yearlong project funded by the UC Office of the President, the sets introduce inquiry-based instruction in rarely taught sources to California high schools.
Read more and check out the sets at CHSSP: chssp.ucdavis.edu/blog/middle-...
Middle East in Historical Context Inquiry Sets Now Available for Classroom Use
As teachers begin the 2025-26 school year, the California History-Social Science Project is proud to announce that there are four new inquiry sets that teachers may now use to teach Middle Eastern and...
chssp.ucdavis.edu
September 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The lesson plans are available for classroom use this Fall. History graduate students Ali Daniş Neyzi, Charles Sills, and Nina Gonzelez curated and produced the sets with CHSSP Deputy Director Beth Slutsky and History faculty PIs Stacy D. Fahrenthold, Baki Tezcan, and Ali Anooshahr.
September 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM