Provides students with current information related to the Middle East. Ex.___
Provides students with information on the current status of issues within the Middle East. Ex.___
Familiarizes students with foreign terms and provides easy access to their definitions. Ex.___
Allows students to focus on generalized problems, patterns, and cultural process of the area. Ex.___
Enables students to break down and focus on specific areas of the largest cultural area commonly taken as a field of study. Ex.___
Shows students how explanations of cultural institutions and social processes relate to the behavior of individuals, their needs, values, and motivations. Ex.___
Describes the area in terms of major topics of ethnicity, kinship, religion, political leadership, patterns of living, sex roles, and family life. Ex.___
Introduces students to the work of economists, sociologists, political scientists, and geographers—in addition to historians. Ex.___
Illustrates different aspects of life in various Middle Eastern societies. Ex.___
Offers students visual representation of the places being explored with words. Ex.___
Helps students process information by making each chapter build on information that preceded it, instead of giving them a country by country presentation. Ex.___
