MES 1200 Ways of Seeing: The Arab World in Global Perspective
Th 4:00-6:30 p.m.
Professor Hanan Toukan
The course examines visual politics in contemporary MiddleEastern society and grapples with fundamental debates in the study of the cultural politics and visual cultures of the Arab region in a global context. We will contextualise the region’s contemporary visual cultures within wider debates and scholarship on the construction of subjectivities, the distribution of power, the formation of identity and belonging, and culture and representation. Emphasis is on translation and reception in a global context and transnational frame by focusing on how states and security, conflicts and displacements, social movements and revolution, aesthetics, art and global media are linked, characterized, analyzed. DPLL.
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MES 1300 Intellectual Change: From Ottoman Modernization to the Turkish Republic
T 4:00-6:30 p.m.
Professor Meltem Toksoz
A critical survey of Ottoman intellectual history in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Modernization, formation of the modern state and issues of nationalism and other ideologies of the time will form the main framework, analyzing their political, social and cultural impact on intellectual and academic production in the Ottoman Empire and through the making of Republican Turkey. It is a history of mentalities organized around four thematic/chronological modules, each representing a set of concepts, ideas, movements as well as facts and problems, which will be compared to the larger world of modern state formation both in thought and practice. DPLL, WRIT
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MES 1985 Understanding Modern Iran
M 3:00-5:30 p.m.
Professor Amir Moosavi
This interdisciplinary course looks at the history of modern Iran through an examination of translated primary historical documents, secondary studies and various forms of cultural production. The course will begin with a broad historical overview and look at some attempts to give historical narrative to Iran in the modern era. We will then go back to the latter half of the Qajar dynasty (approximately 1850) and move forward until we arrive at the present day. Throughout the course, students will study topics such as modernist reform in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, questions of Iranian identity, various attempts at political reform, the women’s movement and the country’s relationships with its neighbors and the West. The course will emphasize the debates and challenges that have occupied Iranian intellectuals and artists, broadly conceived, and will encourage students to think about how cultural representations of major historical events and socio-political changes contribute to and challenge historical narratives, as well as how contemporary history and politics affects cultural representation. DPLL
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MES 1200 Ways of Seeing: The Arab World in Global Perspective
Th 4:00-6:30 p.m.
Professor Hanan Toukan
The course examines visual politics in contemporary MiddleEastern society and grapples with fundamental debates in the study of the cultural politics and visual cultures of the Arab region in a global context. We will contextualise the region’s contemporary visual cultures within wider debates and scholarship on the construction of subjectivities, the distribution of power, the formation of identity and belonging, and culture and representation. Emphasis is on translation and reception in a global context and transnational frame by focusing on how states and security, conflicts and displacements, social movements and revolution, aesthetics, art and global media are linked, characterized, analyzed. DPLL.
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HIST 0244 Understanding the Middle East: 1800s to the Present
MW 3:00-4:20 p.m.
Professor Sreemati Mitter
This course is an introduction to the history of the modern Middle East from the mid-19th C to the present. Readings and topics are structured chronologically, and emphasize the key events and turning points in the political and economic history of the region. The goal of the course is to understand how the Middle East, as it is today, has been shaped by the events of the past.
MES 1971 Honors Thesis
W 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Professor Shamiran Mako
Arabic
ARAB 0100 First-Year Arabic (Mirena Christoff, Alla Hassan)
ARAB 0300 Second-Year Arabic (Mirena Christoff, Miled Faiza)
ARAB 0500 Third-Year Arabic (Miled Faiza)
ARAB 0700 Advanced Arabic: Tales of the City (Mirena Christoff)
Assyriology
ASYR 0300 Babylon: Myth and Reality (John Steele)
ASYR 1000 Introduction to Akkadian (Matthew Rutz)
ASYR 1160 Color and Culture in the Ancient Near East (Shiyanthi Thavapalan)
Classics
CLAS 1210 Mediterranean Culture Wars: Archaic Greek History, c. 1200 to 479 BC (Graham Oliver)
Comparative Literature
COLT 0610Y Women’s Writing in the Arab World (Emily Drumsta)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
COLT 1310E A Classical Islamic Education: Readings in Arabic Literature (Elias Muhanna)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
COLT 1440P Nationalism and Transnationalism in Film and Fiction (Vangelis Calotychos)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
COLT 1813K The Problem of the Vernacular (Elias Muhanna)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
COLT 1814D East-West Encounters: Politics and Fictions of Orientalism (Ourida Mostefai)
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*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
Egyptology
EGYT 1310 Introduction to Classical Hieroglyphic Egyptian Writing and Language (Middle Egyptian I) (James Allen)
EGYT 1330 Selections from Middle Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts (James Allen)
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I (Laurel Bestock)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
English
ENGL 1561D Writing and the Ruins of Empire (William Keach)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
French
FREN 1410 L'expérience des réfugiés/immigrés (Virginia Krause)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
Gender Studies
GNSS 1961G Framing Gender in Middle Eastern Cinema (Thomas Thompson) Course Flyer
History
HIST 0202 African Experiences of Empire (Nancy Jacobs)
HIST 0244 Understanding the Middle East: 1800s to the Present (Sreemati Mitter)
HIST 1080 Humanitarianism and Conflict in Africa (Jennifer Johnson)
HIST 1200C History of Greece: From Alexander the Great to the Roman Conquest (Kenneth Sacks)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
HIST 1960Q Medicine and Public Health in Africa (Jennifer Johnson)
HIST 1968A Approaches to the Middle East (Beshara Doumani)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
HIST 1968F History of Capitalism: The Eastern Mediterranean and the World Around (Meltem Toksoz)
HIST 1968K Islam in Turkey: Rumi to the Republic (Faiz Ahmed)
HIST 1969A Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples I (Omer Bartov)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
HIST 1979K The Indian Ocean World (Ketaki Pant)
International Relations
INTL 1802D Religion, Politics and Society: Israel in a Comparative Perspective (G. Ben Porat)
INTL 1803M Reassessing Contentious Politics, and Social Movements (M. Ali Kadivar)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
Judaic Studies
BHBR 0100 Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (Shane Thompson)
HEBR 0100 Elementary Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda)
HEBR 0300 Intermediate Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda)
HEBR 0500 Writing and Speaking Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda)
JUDS 0050H Israel's Wars (Rachel Rojanski)
JUDS 0603 Race, Religion, and the Secular (Paul Nahme)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
JUDS 0686 The Ten Commandments (Michael Satlow)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
JUDS 0820 God and Poetry (David Jacobson)
JUDS 1635 Problems in Israelite History (Saul Olyan)
JUDS 1713 Introduction to Yiddish Culture and Language (Rachel Rojanski)
Modern Culture and Media
MCM 1504R Iranian Cinema (Joan Copjec)
Modern Greek
MGRK 1220 Decolonizing Classical Antiquity: White Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ancient Material Heritage (Yannis Hamilakis)
Persian
PRSN 0100 Basic Persian (Iradj Anvar)
PRSN 0300 Intermediate Persian Language and Culture (Iradj Anvar)
PRSN 0500 Advanced Persian Language and Culture (Iradj Anvar)
Political Science
POLS 1822I Geopolitics of Oil and Energy (Jeff Colgan)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
Religious Studies
RELS 0022 Introduction to the New Testament (Nathaniel DesRosiers)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
RELS 0088 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Michael Satlow)
RELS 0195 Gender in Early Jewish and Christian Narratives (Larry Wills)
RELS 0560 Tao of Abraham: Muslims and Christians in China (Jason Protass)
RELS 0600C Radical Islam (?) (Nancy Khalek)
*Fulfills Capstone Requirement
Turkish
TKSH 0100 Introduction to Turkish Language and Culture I (Ercan Balci)
TKSH 0300 Intermediate Turkish (Ercan Balci)
*List subject to change