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OUTREACH
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The
MESC Director and Assistant Director in Cincinnati speaking
about the Middle East to Kindergartners
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The
Center's outreach programs are directed at local, state, regional,
and national audiences. The Center's speakers bureau, composed
of OSU Middle East experts, annually delivers over fifty public
talks to various community groups primarily in Ohio and adjacent
states. A Summer Workshop on Middle Eastern Cultures sponsored
by the Center is similarily aimed at secondary school educators
in the Midwest. Workshop participants are required to produce
a teaching unit for use in a Social Studies classroom setting.
Another
important outreach activity is the Center's Summer Insitute in
Persian and Turkish. Sponsored by the member insitutions of the
Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish (Columbia, Georgetown,
Harvard, Michigan, New York, Ohio State, Princeton and Pennsylvania)
and in cooperation with OSU's College of Humanities, the Institute
offers intensive language training in introductory and intermediate
Persian and Turkish.
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The
Ahmad Samaur Mosque in Cincinnati, Ohio; part of the Summer
Workshop on Middle Easatern Cultures.
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St.
Mary's Coptic Church, Columbus, Ohio.
The priest explains about the church to the participants
of the
Summer Workshop on Middle Eastern Cultures.
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Interior
view of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Columbus, Ohio, one of
the three field trip stops for the MESC annual Summer Workshop
on Middle Eatern Cultures.
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