Farah Edits New Volume on History of Middle East, Southwest Asia
Posted on 1/15/2009
Mounir Farah, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Arkansas, served as a general editor of a volume in a new series of world history encyclopedias published recently by M.E. Sharpe Inc.
Farah edited Civilizations of the Middle East and Southwest Asia with Sarolta Takacs, professor and dean of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University. The series for secondary students is organized geographically with the other four volumes focusing on Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe.
Farah is also the author of numerous articles and chapters in social science books. He co-authored Global Insight: People and Cultures and is the senior author of World History: The Human Experience, both published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
Farah joined the faculty of the College of Education and Health Professions in 1996. He has worked as an educational consultant in the Middle East since 1993, which included supervising the publication of social studies textbooks by the Jordanian Ministry of Education. He spent the 2004-05 academic year on a senior Fulbright fellowship conducting research on reform of the Syrian education system.
According to a review by the School Library Journal, the new history encyclopedia set "masterfully chronicles" world history from 500 C.E. to the present, with particular emphasis on how changes throughout the years helped shape contemporary society.
"Compared to relevant books, this set has a stronger emphasis on the events that shaped modern times and that will affect the future," according to the review.
Farah earned a doctorate in Middle Eastern and Islamic history from New York University.
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