Middle Eastern Societies- Course Syllabus

SOCIOLOGY 465: Topics in the Sociology of Politics Middle Eastern Societies Fall 2014 Instructor: Atef Said Classes: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30-1:45, 2BSB 281 Office Hours: Tuesday, 2-4pm and by appointment Office: 4176D BSB Email: [email protected] Phone: (312) 4133-761 Course Description: The region known as the Middle East has a rich and complex history that includes several diverse cultures. Thus, the name of this course: Middle Eastern Societies, plural. As we will discuss in this course, the very idea of “the Middle East” is a historical and political construct, for which there are many different definitions. In some versions, the Middle East is combined with North African countries and labeled as the Middle East and North African Region (MENA region). The mainstream media in the U.S. tends to use terms like Middle East, the Arab World, and the Muslim World interchangeably, despite huge geographical and political differences between the three categories. This class is designed to be an introduction to the region as a whole; we will explore its internal diversity and dynamics, but we will not discuss each country within the region in detail. The main objective of the course is to introduce the region to advanced students in sociology and social sciences at large. The course is interdisciplinary in nature, but the majority of the readings are from sociology, anthropology, and history. Most the readings are academic readings, but we will also look at journalistic accounts. The readings are organized in terms of different analytical lenses one can use to understand the region. Examples include: colonial legacy and empire; political economy; ideology and nationalism; gender; and religion and politics. These categories overlap, of course, but they are separated here for analytical purposes. Course Materials: We will have required readings for each class, and also some optional readings. The focus of the discussion will be on the required readings. It is recommended that students read or skim through the optional readings. As the name suggests, these are only recommended. You may notice that the list of the optional readings is long. This is intentional and meant to help students look for more resources if they want to learn more about a topic and to assist with the writing of papers. Students should bring the required readings with them to class. 1. Books We will draw primarily on two books in the course. These are required and will be on reserve at the library, under the course’s number; they are also available in the UIC bookstore. Schwedler, Jillian, ed. 2013. Understanding the Contemporary Middle East. 4th ed. Lynne Rienner Publishers. Angrist, Michele Penner, ed. 2013. Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East. 2nd ed. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2. Articles Articles will be available to you on the course Blackboard site. But some articles are available online. To avoid any confusion, please look at the following Keywords after each reading in this syllabus: TB (text book): reading is in either Schwedler or Angrist BB: reading is available on Blackboard Online: reading is available online with the relevant link provided in the syllabus Library: reading is available to borrow from the library. Assignments and Grading: Your grade will be divided as follows: • 15% Participation and Attendance (this is divided into 5% for attendance and 10% for active participation in the classroom. The latter includes preparing questions, participating in discussion based on the readings, raising questions and being attentive to class discussion. • 5% In-Class Map Quiz (TBA) • 20% Midterm Short Paper (5-7 pages) DUE Thursday October 30, 2014 • 60% Final Paper (15-20 pages) DUE Tuesday December 9, 2014 About the Papers The class has two papers, as indicated above. The Midterm Short Paper should be 5-7 pages and should focus on a topic that will be developed further in the Final Paper. Students are required to discuss their ideas for the Midterm Short Paper with the instructor before they start and they are encouraged to get feedback on a first draft and/or to discuss the outline with the instructor. The Final Paper should be an expansion of the first paper. The students have different options with regard to topic: Option 1: focus on one theme or idea and one country—for example: nationalism in Egypt, or gender in turkey, or social movements/Arab spring in Tunisia, etc.; Option 2: compare two countries with respect to one theme—for example, the role of Islamists in Egypt and Tunisia; Option 3: Focus on one theme in the entire region—for example, Jihadist movements in the region. 2 Other options: you can think about a broader theoretical issue, such as social movements scholarship and the region, or “western vs. “middle eastern” feminisms and the Middle East. These are just ideas. Students can choose any of the above, or also any related topic with the approval of the instructor. Students should get the approval of the instructor regardless of whether they choose from the list above or outside this list. In all cases, students should draw on course materials, as well other materials to support their arguments and demonstrate their familiarity with the various theoretical approaches and themes we discuss in the course. A Note About Plagiarism: Plagiarism is a serious violation to academic integrity. It is an academic theft. Assignments will be submitted via Safe Assign in Blackboard. It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the UIC guidelines and penalties for academic dishonesty, which are described in the UIC Student Handbook and the UIC Undergraduate Catalog—available here: http://www.uic.edu/ucat/catalog/GR.shtml Students who plagiarize will receive a zero on the assignment in question, and will be reported to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. The Classroom as Community: As an advanced level class, this class is aimed to encourage students’ critical thinking about the materials. We may engage in some heated debates. It is our shared responsibility as instructor and students to make sure that the class is a safe space for every student. Everyone has the right to express her/his opinion in a respectful and productive manner without being interrupted or distracted. Cell phones, iPads, and laptops are only to be used for class purposes (taking notes, and/or looking at readings). Students who have special needs or need accommodations during exams should contact the instructor and inform him as early as possible. CLASS SCHEDULE WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION Tuesday 8/26 I.R. Manners, B.M. Parmenter, and R. King. “The Middle East: A Geographic Preface,” in Schwedler. TB Thursday 8/28 Adelson, Roger. British and U.S. Use and Misuse of the Term “Middle East.” In Middle East?: the evolution of a geopolitical concept. Stanford University Press, 2012, pp 36-55 BB 3 Yimaz, Huseyin. The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire: The Genesis of the Near and the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century. In Bonine, Michael, Abbas Amanat, and Michael Gasper, eds. Is there a Middle East?: the evolution of a geopolitical concept. Stanford University Press, 2012. pp. 11-35 BB Optional: Angrist: “The Making of the Middle East Politics.” Chap 1 in Angrist TB (and also available Online in this link: https://www.rienner.com/uploads/51c8b05797f4c.pdf) Abu-Lughod, Lila. "Zones of Theory in the Anthropology of the Arab World." Annual Review of Anthropology (1989): 267-306. BB Alatas, Syed Farid. "Ibn Khaldun and contemporary sociology." International sociology 21, no. 6 (2006): 782-795 BB Alatas, Syed Farid, and Vineeta Sinha. "Teaching classical sociological theory in Singapore: The context of Eurocentrism." Teaching Sociology (2001): 316-331. BB WEEK 2: COLONIAL LEGACY AND EMPIRE Tuesday 9/2 McDougall, James. The British and the French Empires in the Arab World: Some Problems of Colonial State Formation and its Legacy Sally N Cummings and Raymond Hinnebusch, edt., Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia. Edinburgh University Press. 2011. Pp 44-65 BB Owen, Roger The End of Empires: The Emergence of the Modern Middle Eastern States. In Owen, Roger. State Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East. Routledge, Second Edition. 2002, pp 8-26 BB Thursday 9/4 Lockman, Zachary. The American Century, in Zachary Lockman. Contending visions of the Middle East: the history and politics of Orientalism. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp 100-148 BB Said, Edward W. Orientalism. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1978. Introduction and Chapter 1. pp 1-57 (chapters available in this link: http://politicsandsocietyofthemiddleeas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/13525224/saidintroduction_and_chapter_1_of_orientalism.pdf) Online 4 We will also watch a short documentary, “On Orientalism: An Interview with Edward Said” (1998), parts 1 and 2 (22 min total). Both parts are available online at the following links: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwCOSkXR_Cw Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0HYX9JVH8o Optional: Gelvin, James L.. The United States and the Middle East, in James Gelvin, the Modern Middle East: A History. Oxford University Press. 3rd Edition. 2011. pp 266-282 BB Hadi, Aouni Bey Abdul. "The Balfour Declaration." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1932): 12-21. BB Said, Edward W. "Orientalism reconsidered." Cultural Critique (1985): 89-107. BB Khalidi, Rashid. Resurrecting empire: Western footprints and America's perilous path in the Middle East. Beacon Press, 2005. (Library) Khalidi, Rashid. British Policy Towards Syria & Palestine, 1906-1914: A Study of the Antecedents of the Hussein-the [sic] McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and the Balfour Declaration. Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1980. Library Hasso, Frances “Culture Knowledge’ and the Violence of Imperialism: Revisiting The Arab Mind.” MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 7 (Spring, 2007): 24-40. Link to pdf, http://franceshasso.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/culture-knowledgehasso.pdf Online Vereté, Mayir. "The Balfour Declaration and its makers." Middle Eastern Studies 6, no. 1 (1970): 48-76. BB WEEK 3: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MIDDLE EAST Tuesday 9/9 Achcar, Gilbert. People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising. Univ of California Press, 2013.chap. 2: “The Peculiar Modalities of Capitalism in the Arab Region,” 38–75. BB Paczynska, A. The Economies of the Middle East, in Schwedler TB Optional: Beblawi, Hazem. "The rentier state in the Arab world." Arab Studies Quarterly (1987): 383-398. BB 5 Moore, Pete W. Political Economy, in Angrist, pp 75-98 TB Tuğal, Cihan. "Fight or Acquiesce? Religion and Political Process in Turkey's and Egypt's Neoliberalizations." Development and Change 43, no. 1 (2012): 23-51. BB Thursday 9/11 Adly, Amr. State Reform and Development in the Middle East: Turkey and Egypt in postliberalization era. Routledge. 2013. Intro: Why does state reform vary among developing countries? In Pp 1-14 available in the library as e-book. Online Mitchell, Timothy. Carbon democracy: Political power in the age of oil. Verso Books, 2011. Chap 1, machines of democracy, pp 12-42 BB Optional: Adly, Amr. The Economics of Egypt’s Rising Authoritarian Order. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. June 2014. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Available at: http://carnegieendowment.org/files/econ_egypt_authoritarian_order.pdf Online Cammett, Melani and Ishac Diwan. “Toward a Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings.” Jadaliyya. December 26, 2013. Available at: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15754/toward-a-political-economy-of-the-arabuprisings-( Online Issawi, Charles. An economic history of the Middle East and North Africa. Routledge, 2013. Library Ross, Michael L. "Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring: Democracy and the Resource Curse." Foreign Affairs. 90 (2011): 2. BB WEEK 4: IDEOLOGY AND NATIONALISM Tuesday 9/16 Dawisha, Adeed. Arab nationalism in the twentieth century: from triumph to despair. Princeton University Press, 2009. Chap 1, Defining Arab Nationalism, pp 1-14 BB Khalidi, Rashid. "Arab nationalism: historical problems in the literature." The American Historical Review (1991): 1363-1373. BB Optional Adly, Amr. “The Problematic Continuity of Nasserism.” Jadaliyya. March 31, 2014. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/17135/the-problematic-continuity-of-nasserism Online Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. Verso. 2006. Revised Edition. Introduction. pp 1-8 BB 6 Chaterjee, Partha. The Nation and its Fragments. Princeton University Press. Chapter 1. Whose Imagined Community., (1993). Pp 1-13 BB Devlin, John F. "The Baath Party: rise and metamorphosis." The American Historical Review (1991): 1396-1407. BB Springborg, Robert. The Nasser Playbook. The Future of the U.S.-Egyptian Relationship Is in the Past. Foreign Affairs. November 5, 2013. Online http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140242/robert-springborg/the-nasser-playbook Thursday 9/18 Balibar, Etienne. "“God will not remain silent”: Zionism, Messianism and Nationalism." Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge 7, no. 2 (2009): 10. BB Razi, G. Hossein. "Legitimacy, religion, and nationalism in the Middle East." The American political science review (1990): 69-91. BB Optional: Ayubi, Nazih N. "Withered socialism or whether socialism? The radical Arab states as populist-corporatist regimes." Third World Quarterly 13, no. 1 (1992): 89-105. BB Khalidi, Rashid, ed. The origins of Arab nationalism. Columbia University Press, 1991. Library Peter J. Chelkowski, Robert J. Pranger. Ideology and Power in the Middle East: Studies in Honor of George Lenczowski. Duke University Press. 1998. Library Podeh, Elie, and Onn Winckler, eds. Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt. University Press of Florida, 2004. Library Taspinar, Omer. Kurdish nationalism and political Islam in Turkey: Kemalist identity in transition. Psychology Press, 2005. Library Tibi, Bassam, and Marion Farouk-Sluglett. Arab nationalism: between Islam and the nation-state. London: Macmillan, 1997. Library WEEKS 5 AND 6: STATE AND SOCIETY Tuesday 9/23 Carpico, Sheila. “Civil Society” in Angrist TB El-Ghobashy, Mona. “Governments and Politics” in Angrist TB 7 Optional: Drake, Michael. Political Sociology for a Globalizing World. Polity. (2010). Chap 6, Civil Society and the Public Sphere. Pp 116-133 BB Hamzawy, Amr. Civil Society in the Middle East. Introduction. In Amr Hamzawy, edt. Civil Society in the Middle East. Verlag Hans Schiler. 2002. Pp 10-46 (available as ebook) Online Hawthorne, Amy. “Is Civil Society The Answer.” Middle East Series. Carnegie Papers, paper no 44. March 2004. Available in this link: http://carnegieendowment.org/files/CarnegiePaper44.pdf Online Langohr, Vickie. "Too much civil society, too little politics: Egypt and liberalizing Arab regimes." Comparative politics (2004): 181-204. BB Thursday 9/25 Kamrava, Mehran. "Military Professionalization and Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East." Political Science Quarterly 115, no. 1 (2000): 67-92. BB Massoud, Hani. “The future of Arab labor movements.” December 11, 2013. Al-Monitor. Available at: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2013/12/arab-labor-movementschallenges-future.html Online Voll, John. 2014. Not secularism vs. Islamism. The Immanent Frame. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2014/03/25/not-secularism-vs-islamism/ (accessed August 24, 2014). Online Optional: Anderson, Lisa. "The State in the Middle East and North Africa." Comparative Politics (1987): 1-18. BB Arjomand, Said Amir. After Khomeini: Iran under his successors. Oxford University Press, 2009. Conclusion. Pp 207-212 BB Barakat, Halim. The Arab world: Society, culture, and state. University of California Press, 1993. rs, 2001. Pp 1-43 Library Mamān, Dāniyyêl, Eyal Ben-Ari, and Zeev Rosenhek, eds. Military, State, and Society in Israel: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. Transaction Publishers, 2001. Chap 1, Military, State and Society in Israel: An Introductory Essay Library Rubin, Barry. "The military in contemporary Middle East politics." Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal 5, no. 1 (2001): 47-63. BB 8 Tilly, Charles. “War making and state making as organized crime,” in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds., eds. Bringing the state back in. 1985. Cambridge University Press, pp. 169-191 BB Timothy Mitchell. “Society, Economy and the State Effect,” in Steinmetz, George, ed. State/culture: State-formation after the cultural turn. Cornell University Press, (1999). Pp 76-97 BB Tuesday 9/30 Joffé, George. "The Arab spring in North Africa: origins and prospects." The Journal of North African Studies 16, no. 4 (2011): 507-532. BB Richard Youngs. “From Transformation to Mediation: The Arab Spring Reframed.” March 20, 2014. Carnegie Europe Paper. Available in this link: http://carnegieeurope.eu/publications/?fa=55043 Online Thursday 10/2 Cole, Juan. The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is changing the Middle East. (2014). “The Arab Millennials,” intro. Simon & Schuster. Pp 1-27 BB In class, we will also watch part of the documentary “Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark” (2011). Optional: Holmes, Amy Austin. “Why Egypt’s Military Orchestrated a Massacre? “August 22, 2014. Washington Post Blog. Available in this link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/08/22/why-egyptsmilitary-orchestrated-a-massacre/ Online Stepan, Alfred, and Juan J. Linz. "Democratization Theory and the" Arab Spring"." Journal of Democracy 24, no. 2 (2013): 15-30. BB WEEK 7: GENDER Tuesday 10/7 Abu-Lughod, Lila., Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013), chap. 1: “Do Muslim Women (Still) Need Saving?,” 27–53. BB Ahmed, Leila. “The Discourse of the Veil,” In Gaurave Desai and Supriya Nair, eds., Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism. Rutgres University Press. 2005. Pp 315-338 BB 9 Optional: Göçek, Fatma Müge and Shiva Balaghi, Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East Through Voice and Experience, intro in Göçek, Fatma Müge, and Shiva Balaghi, eds. Reconstructing gender in the Middle East: tradition, identity, and power. Columbia University Press, 1994.pp 1-19 BB Singerman, Diane. “Gender and Politics,” in Angrist TB Thursday 10/9 Charrad, Mounira M. "Gender in the Middle East: Islam, state, agency." Annual Review of Sociology 37 (2011): 417-437. BB El-Ghobashy, Mona. “Quandaries of Representation.” In Rabab AbdulHadi, Evelyn AlSultany and Nadine Naber (eds.) Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) Syracuse U Press. 2011., pp. 97-103 BB Optional: AbdulHadi, Rabab, Evelyn Al-Sultany and Nadine Naber. “Introduction,” in Rabab AbdulHadi, Evelyn Al-Sultany and Nadine Naber (eds.) Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) Syracuse U Press. 2011. Pp xix- 3 BB Al-Ali, Nadje “Gendering the Arab Spring,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 5, no. 1 (2012): 26–31. BB Moruzzi, Norma. “Gender and the Revolutions.” MER268. Middle East Research and Information Project: MERIP. Vol 43, Fall 2013. Available in this link: http://www.merip.org/mer/mer268/gender-revolutions Online Naber, Nadine. “Transnational Anti-Imperialism and the Middle East Women’s Studies.” Jadaliyya. July 3, 2013. Available in this link: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12584/transnational-anti-imperialism-and-middleeast-wom Online WEEK 8 AND 9: RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS Tuesday 10/14 Bayat, Asef. “Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question?” The Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM). ISIM Paper 8. Amsterdam University press. Leiden. 2007. Available in this link: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/12452/paper_bayat.pdf?sequence =1 Online Schwedler, Jillian. “Religion and Politics” in Angrist TB 10 Optional: Bayat, Asef. "Islamism and social movement theory." Third World Quarterly 26, no. 6 (2005): 891-908. BB Hirschkind, Charles. “What is Political Islam?” MERIP. Volume 27, Winter (1997). Available in this link: http://www.merip.org/mer/mer205/what-political-islam Online Ungureanu, Daniel. "Wahhabism, Salafism and the Expansion of Islamic Fundamentalist Ideology." In Journal of the Seminar of Discursive Logic, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, p. 140. (2011). Available as a pdf in this link: http://fssp.uaic.ro/argumentum/Numarul%2010/11_Ungureanu_tehno.pdf Online Zubaida, Sami. ‘Is There a Muslim Society? Ernest Gellner’s Sociology of Islam’. Economy and Society 24 (May 1995): 151–188. BB Thursday 10/16 Al-Anani, Khalil. "Islamist Parties Post-Arab Spring." Mediterranean Politics 17, no. 3 (2012): 466-472. BB Taşpınar, Ömer. “Turkey: The New Model?” April 2012. Brookings. Available in this link: http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/04/24-turkey-new-model-taspinar Online Optional: Al-Anani, Khalil. “Whither Political Islam?” Al-Jazeera. December 24, 2013. Available in this link: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/whither-political-islam2013122310825761430.html Online Ebaugh, Helen Rose Fuchs. The Gülen Movement. Springer Science & Business Media BV, 2010. Library Haaretz, Editorial. Religious extremists threaten democracy in Israel. December 28, 2011. Haaretz. Available in this link: http://www.haaretz.com/printedition/opinion/religious-extremists-threaten-democracy-in-israel-1.404009 Online Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the mind of God: The global rise of religious violence. University of California Press, 2003. Library Özbudun, Ergun. "From political Islam to conservative democracy: the case of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey." South European society & politics 11, no. 3-4 (2006): 543-557. BB 11 Peleg, Samuel. "They shoot prime ministers too, don't they? Religious violence in Israel: Premises, dynamics, and prospects." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 20, no. 3 (1997): 227-247. BB Sprinzak, Ehud. "Extremism and violence in Israel: The crisis of messianic politics." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1998): 114-126. BB Tuesday 10/21 Al-Sherif., Ashraf. “The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Failures.” Paper. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. July 14, 2014. Available in this link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/07/01/egyptian-muslim-brotherhood-s-failure/hez8 Online Lambert, Robert. "Empowering Salafis and Islamists against al-Qaeda: A London counterterrorism case study." PS: Political Science & Politics 41, no. 01 (2008): 31-35. BB The Economist. “Keep that New Democracy Afloat: Tunisia’s Islamists seem to have learnt from their Egyptian peers’ debacle.” October 12, 2013. The Economist. Available in this link: http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21587843-tunisiasislamists-seem-have-learnt-their-egyptian-peers-debacle-keep Online Optional: Landolt, Laura K., and Paul Kubicek. "Opportunities and constraints: comparing Tunisia and Egypt to the coloured revolutions." Democratization ahead-of-print (2013): 1-23. BB Lynch, Marc. “Did We get the Muslim Brotherhood Wrong?” Foreign Policy. April 10, 2013. Available in this link: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/10/did_we_get_the_muslim_brotherhood _wrong Online Totten, Michael. “Getting the Muslim Brotherhood Wrong.” World Affairs. 11 July 2013. Available in this link: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/gettingmuslim-brotherhood-wrong Online Thursday 10/23 Bennet-Jones, Owen. “How should we think about the Caliphate?” London Review of Books. Vol 36, issue 14. 17 July, 2014. Available in this link: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n14/owen-bennett-jones/how-should-we-think-about-thecaliphate Online Cockburn, Patrick. “ISIS Consolidates.” London Review of Books. Vol. 36 No 16 · 21 August 2014. Available in this link: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n16/patrick-cockburn/isisconsolidates Online 12 Mathews, Jessica T. “Iraq Illusions.” The New York Review of Books. August 14, 2104. Available in this link: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/aug/14/iraq-illusions/ Online Optional: Cockburn, Patrick. "Is it the end of Sykes-Picot?." London Review of Books 6 (2013). http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n11/patrick-cockburn/is-it-the-end-of-sykes-picot Online Weiss, Max. Prologue-Shi’ism, Sectarianism, Modernity, in In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi’ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon. Harvard University Press. (2010). Pp 1-37 BB WEEK 10: CULTURE AND ART Tuesday 10/28 Touma, Habib Hassan. "The maqam phenomenon: An improvisation technique in the music of the Middle East." Ethnomusicology (1971): 38-48. BB Watching part of the documentary: Oum Kalthoum A Voice like Egypt. Michal Goldman. Optional: Dabashi, Hamid. Close up: Iranian cinema, past, present, and future. Verso, 2001. Library Thursday 10/30 (MID-TERM PAPER DUE in Class) Colla, Elliott. "The Poetry of Revolt." Jadaliyya, June 31 (2011). http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/506/the-poetry-of-revolt Online Fadele, Valentina. "Singing the revolution. North African rap and the story of the Arab uprisings1. International Association of Social Science Research, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp 24-28. Available in this link: http://iassr.org/rs/E010305.pdf Online Massad, Joseph. "Liberating songs: Palestine put to music." Journal of Palestine Studies 32, no. 3 (2003): 21-38. BB Optional: Saad, Reem. "The Egyptian revolution: A triumph of poetry." American Ethnologist 39, no. 1 (2012): 63-66. BB Shafik, Viola. Arab cinema: History and cultural identity. American University in Cairo Press, 2007. Library 13 Shay, Anthony and Barbara Sellers-Young. Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, and Harem Fantasy. Bibliotica Iranica, Performing Arts Series. 2005. Library Winegar, Jessica. Creative reckonings: The politics of art and culture in contemporary Egypt. Stanford University Press, 2006. Library WEEK 11: CONFLICTS AND CONTENTIONS Tuesday 11/4 Beinin, Joel and Lisa Hajjar. “Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.” MERIP. February 2014. Available in this link: http://www.merip.org/sites/default/files/Primer_on_PalestineIsrael%28MERIP_February2014%29final.pdf Online S. Sharoni and M. Abu-Nimer, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict—, in Schwedler TB Optional: Clarno, Andy. “Securing Oslo.” MERIP. Vol 43, Winter 2013. Available in this link: http://www.merip.org/mer/mer269/securing-oslo Online Tugal, Cihan. “Resistance Everywhere: The Gezi Revolt in Global Perspective.” New Perspectives on Turkey 49 (2013).pp 157-172. BB Thursday 11/6 Bayat, Asef. "The Arab Spring and its surprises." Development and Change 44, no. 3 (2013): 587-601. BB Craig Jones, Toby. “America, Oil, and War in the Middle East.” The Journal of American History. (2012). Vol 99. Issue 1. Pp 208-218 BB Optional: Carpenter, Ted Galen. Tangled Web: The Syrian Civil War and its Implications. Mediterranean Quarterly 24, no. 1 (2013): 1-11. BB Khaddour, Kheder and Kevin Mazur. “The Struggle for Syria’s Regions.” MERIP. Vol 43, Winter 2013 Available in this link: http://www.merip.org/mer/mer269/struggle-syrias-regions Online Kurzman, Charles., Unthinkable Revolution in Iran. Harvard University Press (2005). Introduction and Conclusion, Pp 1-12, 163-174 BB Özcan, Ali Kemal. Turkey's Kurds: A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan. Routledge, 2012. Library 14 WEEK 12: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS, PART 1 Tuesday 11/11 Anderson, Elizabeth. Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Internationalization and Interdisciplinarity: An Evaluation of Title VI Funded Middle East Study Centers. Fieldwork Report. 2006. Available at https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssrccdn1/crmuploads/new_publication_3/%7BC0096EC1-F260-DE11-BD80001CC477EC70%7D.pdf Online Arvanitis, Rigas Roland Waast and Abdel Hakim Al-Husban. Social Sciences in the Arab World: Background paper, In World Social Sciences Report: Knowledge Divides. UNESCO Publishing and International Social Sciences Council. Pp. 1-29. Paper available at: http://www.worldsocialscience.org/documents/social-sciences-in-the-arabworld.pdf (and full report available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001883/188333e.pdf) Online Thursday 11/13 Kasaba, Resat. “Middle East in Sociology, Sociology in the Middle East.” (2007).Unpublished Paper. BB WEEK 13: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 1 Tuesday 11/18 Thursday 11/20 WEEK 14: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 2 Tuesday 11/25 Thursday 11/27 Thanksgiving Holiday WEEK 15: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS, PART II Tuesday 12/2 Deeb, Lara, and Jessica Winegar. "Anthropologies of Arab-majority societies." Annual Review of Anthropology 41 (2012): 537-558. BB Thursday 12/4 Schwedler, J. “Trends and Prospects,” in J. Schwedler TB Tuesday 12/9 General Discussion and Final Paper DUE 15