I wrote an article for the Technology Teacher which should be out about now, although they don’t have online access. The article was about Design Squad, an excellent PBS show aimed at the 9 yrs old and above crowd and is reality show where teams compete by building things. Yes, it teaches engineering and science…
A comment I made to the blog Altercation was published on Friday. I realize it sounds like it could be sarcastic or cynical, but I’m really curious about what the mission in Afghanistan will be.
Well, turns out people better informed than me also think that Moqtada al-Sadr is one of the central figures in Iraq, marginalized by the Iraqi and American governments (as well as the American media). Here’s a post with the last chapter of Patrick Cockburn’s new book Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle…
Is it just me, or is it clear to everyone who the winner of the war in Iraq is? Is it just a matter of time before he’s identified by everyone else? I’m writing, of course, about Moqtada al-Sadr. He and his Mahdi army have been powerful forces and power brokers for a long time.…
I’m excerpting below the introduction that Marian Feldman and I wrote for Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter. I’d meant to do this earlier to help Googlers find articles that are in the book, but it makes sense to do it now, too, because we will be having…
I’m now listed as a contributor to The Public Humanist, a site set up by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities with support from The Valley Advocate. Pretty impressive list of writers there. I’m the, uh, Asian one, I guess. What’s going on that it was so hard to find non-whites with a background and…
Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter edited by Jack Cheng and Marian H. Feldman, published by Brill, 2007. More details as we get closer to the actual physical book.
I just got this nice e-mail: “We are writing with the very nice news that World History Matters (the combined rubric for World History Sources and Women and World History–at http://worldhistorymatters.org) has been awarded the James Harvey Robinson Prize of the American Historical Association for its for “outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of…
The Newsletter of the Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology has just published my review of the Gath Project Blog in the Spring 2006 issue. Blogging has come to the trenches! The Gath blog is worth checking out because it is both archaeologically sound (i.e. lots of good information about digging for students) and fun…
Embarassingly, I forgot to post before the actual show, but PBS affiliates may be repeating the latest American Experience program this week. The show is on The Boy in the Bubble and I wrote the content for the accompanying website. I will write more later, but suffice it to say for the moment that I…
Jack Cheng, PhD 