To help keep you abreast of the historical events discussed or predicted in the third book, check out this article on Wahhabism [1], this one on T. E. Lawrence [2], and this one on the Ottoman Empire [3].

****Update: in class Tuesday we'll start working on a little project where we will create hyperlinked annotation to Etel Adnan's highly historicized poem "Beirut Hell Express."

What I'd like you to do if you choose to comment on Adnan's poem in this discussion topic is to choose two or three historical references in her poem (events in the Lebanese Civil War, Gamal Abd-al-Nasser, etc.) and find a link that explains that particularly reference.