About the Author
Julia Clancy Smith is Professor of History of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Arizona. She is the author of numerous books, including Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) for which she received awards from the French Colonial Historical Society, the Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History and the Middle East Studies Association. Her numerous other publications have been featured in journals such as The Journal of World History, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, and The American Historical Review. She is interested primarily in Middle Eastern/North African women’s history and literature and gender relations in imperialism/colonialism, and has received many grants and awards supporting her research.
About the Lesson Plan Author
Bill Velto is an Upper School History Teacher at Cary Academy in Cary,
North Carolina, teaching World History and an elective, Terrorism: Modern Political
Violence. Prior to that, he taught at James Pace High School in
Brownsville, Texas, and Potsdam High School in Potsdam, New York. Bill holds
degrees from St. Lawrence University and the University of Texas at
Brownsville. He is a Teaching Fellow for the Choices Education Program
at the Watson Institute for International Studies and has presented at
numerous national conferences on a variety of topics.
