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		Home Strategies for Discussion Program Descriptions Credits and Acknowledgments

		Background Key Events Select Individuals by Program Key Organizations Maps of the Region Country Briefings "Basic Facts About Islam"

		Classroom Activities Activity 1: Roots of Hatred Activity 2: Defining Terrorism Activity 3: Defining an Ally Activity 4: Views of bin Laden Activity 5: U.N. Simulations Activity 6: Making Connections Activity 7: Media and Perception Activity 8: Debates, Discussion Questions, and Writing Prompts Activity 9: How Are You Being Represented?

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This activity is especially recommended for use with "Looking for Answers," "Saudi Time Bomb?" and "Hunting bin Laden."

This activity will provide students with an opportunity to:

Review geographical, cultural, political, and economic information about individual countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Investigate the influence of Islam in general, and Wahhabism, fundamentalism, and Al Qaeda in particular, in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Practice creating and delivering written and/or oral reports.

Have students work in pairs or small groups. Assign each pair one of the countries listed in the briefing section. Have them investigate that country's relationship to or view of Osama bin Laden. Be sure they find out enough background information about the country to explain their discoveries. Report to the rest of the class.

FRONTLINE: Roots of Terrorism
Includes extended interviews, corollary readings, recommended links and resources, and other background materials.

University of Texas Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Provides country-by-country information gathered from a variety of sources.

CIA World Factbook
Provides a country-by-country summary of basic information.

Geography
1. Understands the characteristics and uses of maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies

2. Knows the location of places, geographic features, and patterns of the environment

5. Understands the concept of regions

6. Understands that culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

Language arts
4. Gathers and uses information for research purposes

7. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts

8. Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

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