MIDDLE EASTERN AMERICAN RESOURCES ONLINE

MEARO provides educators, students, professionals, and the public at large access to a variety of materials about Americans who trace their ancestry to the Middle East. Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish-speaking immigrants and other smaller numeric groups from the Middle East and North Africa have settled in the United States since the late 19th century. Together with their descendants, they comprise a diverse and important multiethnic community deserving attention and study, especially in America's precollegiate schools and institutions of higher learning.

MEARO offers the following resources:

1. A teaching module consisting of five lessons designed to incorporate the Middle Eastern American experience into the coverage of U.S History and Geography and English Language Arts in junior high schools.
2. Several videocasts illustrating the lives of Middle Eastern Americans at work, talking about their identity, celebrating their heritage in public, and telling stories about their pioneering grandparents.
3. Information about recently published academic and literary books on Middle Eastern Americans.

MEARO will expand its resources in the future by posting:

• Additional teaching modules for middle and high school teachers on Middle Eastern Americans.
• Census data on Middle Eastern American groups, bibliography, sample syllabi and other teaching aids at the college level.
• Filmography, historical and contemporary photographs, a listing of major collections of documents and primary sources available in libraries, museums, and archives, and through community organizations and ethnic news channels and media outlets.
• Information about Middle Eastern American cuisine and food culture as well as the representation of Middle Eastern Americans in popular culture.