Helping Children and Communities Respond to Terrorism and Trauma

100 Questions and Answers about Arab-Americans: A Journalist's Guide
From The Detroit Free Press. Written for journalists, it is equally useful as factual background for classrooms and other forums.
Go to: http://www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs/

AMIDEAST provides a wide range of books and other materials for teaching about the Middle East and North Africa.
Go to: http://www.amideast.org/Pubs_one/title_list.asp

Teaching for Change has an excellent listing of resources specific to teaching about the events and the context for responses. It is reasonably balanced, and committed to providing alternative perspectives to the mainstream press and to facilitating consideration of non-violent responses.
Go to: http://www.teachingforchange.org/Sept11.htm

EurasiaNet is a leading Internet News service, covering Central Asia and the Caucasus, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Mongolia.
Go to: http://www.eurasianet.org/

Behind the Veil
CNN Presents has this interactive photo essay by journalist Saira Shah providing images and background inside the Taliban's Afghanistan.
Go to: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/index.veil.html

Letter from an Afghani American
Tamim Ansary is a noted author of books on native Americans and on Afghanistan.
Go to: http://safe.millennium.berkeley.edu/ansary.php

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid, Yale University Press, 2000.
Perhaps the single best reference on the Taliban.
Available at Amazon.com and other booksellers.

The Terrorism Research Center has documents and thought pieces on terrorism, as well as links to related research and resources.
Go to: http://www.terrorism.com/

Public Agenda has a special edition on public opinion, background on recent events and fact files on history of terrorism, public safety and related topics.
Go to: http://www.publicagenda.org/specials/terrorism/terror.htm