Shakespeare!
If you want to visit the Renaissance Faire this summer, it runs the first three weekends of August.
Information: [http://www.washingtonfaire.com/]
The Middle East
In the news:
Censoring Persepolis: [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=151917603]
Books:
Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater than the People in Power by Wael Ghonim
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Films:
The Four Feathers
Hidalgo
The Prince of Egypt
Japan
Books:
Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization by William M. Tsutsui
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Films:
My Neighbor Totoro
Spirited Away
China
Books:
China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
When a Billion Chinese Jump by Jonathan Watts
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Films:
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
News Stories:
New Leadership in China:
[http://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146815991/a-pragmatic-princeling-next-in-line-to-lead-china]
Human Rights:
[http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/03/151917345/chinese-activist-wants-to-leave-with-clinton-u-s-diplomats-back-in-touch]
Tibet
Create your own mandala: [http://explore-mandala.rma2.org/]
Books:
Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions
Why the Dalai Lama Matters by Robert A. E. Thurman
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
Films:
Seven Years in Tibet
Little Buddha
Dreaming Lhasa
Geography of Asia- Web Resources
[http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/geography/]
[http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html]
[http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/]
[http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/contents.htm]
India
Books:
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi by Steve Inskeep
Films:
Outsourced
Bride and Prejudice
Gandhi
Little Buddha
News Stories:
College Education in India:
[http://www.npr.org/2012/01/10/144902774/in-india-the-pressure-cooker-of-college-admissions]
India's Economy:
[http://www.npr.org/2012/01/03/144442184/indias-economic-battle-development-vs-tradition]
Latin America
Films:
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Three Caballeros
Evita
Medicine Man
Books:
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
News Stories:
Global Influence:
[http://www.npr.org/2011/12/05/143131926/once-a-risky-bet-latin-america-tapped-to-aid-eurozone]
Africa
Films:
Cheetah
A Far Off Place
The African Queen
Invictus
News Stories:
The Congo River:
[http://www.npr.org/2011/06/01/129176374/river-of-life-congo-odyssey?ps=rs]
NPR current events in Africa:
[http://www.npr.org/sections/africa/]
Books:
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo
Biko by Donald Woods
Made for Goodness by Desmond Tutu
What is the What by Dave Eggars
The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
