HISTORY OF NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

SPS/13 - 6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

AGATA DANIELA MELFA


Learning Objectives

The course aims to provide students with a historical framework and analytical categories to apprehend socio-political processes in the modern Middle East and Mediterranean Africa.


Course Structure

Lessons are organised around lectures. Historical documents, newspapers, maps, photos and videos will be used during class activities.



Detailed Course Content

The course deals with the main events of North African and the Middle Eastern history from Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt (1798) to the late-twentieth century. Particular emphasis will be laid on the nineteenth-century process of modernisation, European imperialism, political ideologies and the birth of nation-states. The challenges of development, economic independence and national unity will be examined along with the main contemporary conflicts of the area, first of all the Arab-Israeli one.



Textbook Information

M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente. Una storia dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012.

 

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