Middle East

A Distant Plain

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A Distant Plain is a 1- to 4-player board game depicting insurgent and counterinsurgent (COIN) conflict in modern Afghanistan.

Grade Level: 
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
180 min.
A Distant Plain

Freedom

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Poem by Rabindranath Tagore.

In This Blind Alley

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Poem by Ahmad Shamlu, written in 1979 after the Revolution in Iran.

From Kosovo to the United States

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The firsthand account of Isau Ajeti.

Scorpia Rising - The Final Mission: An Alex Rider Adventure (Unabridged)

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Scorpia has dogged Alex Rider for most of his life. They killed his parents, they did their best to con Alex into turning traitor, and they just keep coming back with more power. Now the world's most dangerous terrorist organization is playing with fire in the world's most combustible land: the Middle East. No one knows Scorpia like Alex. And no one knows how best to get to Alex like Scorpia.

Author: 
Anthony Horowitz
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
780L
Length: 
10:13
Scorpia Rising - The Final Mission: An Alex Rider Adventure (Unabridged)

The Kite Runner

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Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

Author: 
Khaled Hosseini
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
840L
Length: 
06:18
The Kite Runner

Three Cups of Tea (Unabridged)

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This young readers edition of the worldwide best seller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present.

Author: 
Greg Mortenson
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
1220L
Length: 
03:59
Three Cups of Tea (Unabridged)

A Different World (2005)

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America had to adjust its role in the world in the late 20th century. The end of the Cold War, Americas continued involvement in the Middle East, and how American policymakers defined U.S. interests in a complicated and often violent world is analyzed.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:30
A Different World

Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001-?

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2001: The “American Century” had closed with a single Cold War superpower standing and a pause in conflict that some at the time dubbed “The End of History”. It wasn’t.

Grade Level: 
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
180 min.
Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001-?

Marrakesh

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Four traders and their caravans are on the way to the market of Marrakesh. The journey is arduous and full of danger as sandstorms and drifting dunes hinder them from advancing rapidly.
But everyone knows - the market of Marrakesh is good for trading...

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
20 min.
Marrakesh