This video highlights chapter 4 of the following leading article. The chapter deals with the surrounding civilizations that must also become a basic subject of the course of History that is available in the public and private schools at the United Arab Emirates. Interconnection at the present time can be better achieved when a higher level of historical knowledge about the neighboring countries, nations, cultures and civilizations is offered in the Primary and Secondary Education at the UAE.
Meluhha, Gerrha, and the UAE -- The Search for National Identity of a Young Nation.
https://www.academia.edu/23214313/Meluhha_Gerrha_and_the_Emirates_by_Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
The establishment of a nation's historical overview by the indigenous people and not foreign, colonial academia sets the real beginning of the national independence and self-determination.
Fully incorporating past moments, cultural identity, and the land's historicity into a system of historical education able to offer a historical perspective of self-perceived identity, based on scientifically approved and historically correct data, a young nation creates the only solid national foundation for future generations.
Main Chapters
I. National History, National Identity and Colonialism
II. Orientalism and Hellenism
III. UAE Historical Heritage Threatened by Academic Colonialism
IV. Neighboring Nations & Cultures -- Key Components of UAE National History
V. National History of the Emirates - Diachronic Trends
VI. Assyrian - Babylonian Literature about UAE territory: Meluhha
VII. Assyrian -- Babylonian 'Meluhha': UAE territory, not Indus Valley
VIII. Assyrian -- Babylonian Texts about Meluhha -- Emirates
IX. Meluhha -- Emirates, and the Late Use of 'Meluhha' in Assyrian Imperial Annals
X. The Aramaean Foundations of UAE History: the Rise of Gerrha (539 BCE -- 642 CE)
XI. Gerrha, Achaemenid Iran, and the Interconnectedness between Africa and Asia
XII. Gerrha's Prominence in Antiquity - Harbinger of the Present UAE Rise
XIII. Gerrha and Alexander the Great
XIV. Why Gerrha Cannot Be Located in Al Ehsa Province of Saudi Arabia
XV. Macedonian Naval Expeditions around the Peninsula, and Gerrha
XVI. Arsacid Parthian Iran, Seleucid Syria, Ptolemaic Egypt, and Gerrha
XVII. Agatharchides on Gerrha and the Sabaean (Sheba) Yemenites
XVIII. The Romans in Egypt, the Roman Naval Expedition in Yemen, and Gerrha
XIX. Strabo's Textual References to Gerrha
XX. Gerrha and the Anonymous Author of the Text 'Periplus of the Red Sea'
XXI. Pliny the Elder and Gerrha
XXII. Ptolemy the Geographer - his Description of Yemen, Oman, and the Emirates
XXIII. Sharjah (Sarkoe) aand Umm Quwain (Kawana) Mentioned by Ptolemy the Geographer
XXIV. The Correct Location Gerrha in UAE, and Ptolemy the Geographer
XXV. Western UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Al Ehsa as per Ptolemy the Geographer
XXVI. UAE Islands Mentioned by Ptolemy the Geographer
XXVII. The Rise of the Sassanid Empire of Iran
