Gentrain Society.

Prehistory and Earliest Civilizations

Unit 1: Up to 1200 BCE

  • A SHORT HISTORY OF MYTH, Karen Armstrong
  • A WORLD HISTORY, William McNell
  • AFFLUANCE WITHOUT ABUNDANCE, James Suzman
  • AGAINST THE GRAIN, James Scott
  • ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE, John Foster, trans
  • ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE; old and Middle Kingdoms, M. Lichtheim, trans
  • GILGAMESH, Stephen Mitchell
  • GODS AND MEN IN EGYPT, 3000 BC to 395 CE, Françoise Durand and Christiane Zivie-Coche
  • HERITAGE: Civilization and the Jews, Abba Eban
  • INANNA: Lady of Largest Heart, Meador
  • INANNA; Queen of Heaven and Earth, Wolkstein and Kramer
  • LOVE SONGS OF THE NEW KINGDOM John Foste, trans
  • MOSES AND MONOTHEISM, Sigmund Freud
  • ORIGINS OF THE BOOK, Mohamed Hussein
  • PREHISTORY; THE MAKING OF THE HUMAN MIND, Colin Renfrew
  • PRIMITIVE MAN AS PHILOSOPHER, Paul Radin
  • PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY: The Mask of God, Joseph Campbell
  • STONEHENGE; A NEW UNDERSTANDING, Mike Pearson
  • THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD, Robin Winks and Susan Mattern-Parkes
  • THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATIO IN THE NEAR EAST, Henri Frankfort
  • THE FACE OF THE ANCIENT ORIENT, Sabatino Moscat
  • THE GREATNESS THAT WAS BABYLON, H.W.F. Saggs
  • THE HITTITES, O.R Gurney
  • THE MIND IN THE CAVE, Thames & Hudson
  • THE WORLD OF ANCIENT TIMES, Carl Roebuck
  • WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS, Vol I, Joshua Cole and Catol Symes
  • WORSHIPPING POWER, Peter Gelderloos
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Najm Akbar

I am Muhammad Najm Akbar. Call me Najm.
Born in Multan, Pakistan, I had my initial education there.
In the United States, I have graduated twice from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MA 1995 and MALD, 2011, and have a graduate degree in History from Fresno State, 2022. Middlebury awarded me an MA in Teaching of Foreign Language, in 2009.

Alia and I have lived In Monterey since 2005. Our children are married and engaged in their professional lives in New York.

Our biggest delight is our two granddaughters, the eldest turns four soon, and the youngest is about a year and a half old.

I remained part of the Pakistan Foreign Service for two decades and at the Defense Language Institute taught Urdu for thirteen years until 2018.

I joined the MPC pool of adjunct history instructors in 2022 and have taught courses in Gentrain, World History, US History, and History of World Religions. 

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