Fw: H-ASIA: Tracking Tahrir - a teaching strategy and request

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 4:05 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Tracking Tahrir - a teaching strategy and request

> H-ASIA
> February 5, 2011
>
> Tracking Tahrir - a teaching strategy and request from a member
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> Ed. note: It is true that Egypt is not within the conventional remit of
> H-ASIA, and I do not send this post out with an intention of inviting
> discussion of the events/revolution in Cairo and elsewhere. However
> Professor Vaypeyi sent this post in search of strengthening her present
> teaching project. It seemed to me to be inherently interesting both in
> terms of the current situation in Egypt and an example of how many of us
> who teach on the current world might pursue a useful approach in teaching
> on other contemporary crisis situations. Full marks to Ananya for this
> innovative approach. FFC
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> From: Ananya Vajpeyi <ananya.vajpeyi@gmail.com>
>
> Dear Frank and List Members,
>
> As part of my Modern World History Class, which focuses on Colonialism and
> Decolonization in Africa and parts of Asia, I am consolidating coverage
> and
> opinion about the developments in Egypt on the class wiki-page. We started
> "keeping tabs" on Feb 1, and update the "Tracking Tahrir" tab on a daily
> basis. There's no telling how long the situation in Egypt will continue to
> unfold, but I suspect that by the end of the semester the wiki will have
> become quite a useful repository of global journalistic records of this
> time. The wiki is open for all to access; the latest page is here:
>
> http://umb.libguides.com/content.php?pid=129426&sid=1561191
>
> If fellow-historians and colleagues want to send me published pieces or
> images, videos, blog-posts etc., relating to Egypt now, that are not in
> the
> mainstream media, I am at ananya.vajpeyi@gmail.com
>
> Since this involves my students, I try to scrutinize materials before
> putting them up. The idea is to collect everything in one place so as to
> be
> able to look at the event -- I hesitate still, to call it a
> "revolution" --
> carefully later on. Things are very unclear, at the present moment.
>
> All best,
>
> Ananya.
>
>
> --
> Ananya Vajpeyi, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of History
> University of Massachusetts, Boston
> McCormack Building, M-4-626
> 100, Morrissey Boulevard
> Boston MA 02125-3393
> Voicemail: 617 287 6877
> Office Fax: 617 287 6899
> Email: ananya.vajpeyi@umb.edu
> http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/history/faculty/vajpeyi.html
>
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