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GLOBAL HISTORY, THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Docenti titolari dell'insegnamento

GIUSEPPA DI GREGORIO - Modulo GLOBAL HISTORY - M-STO/04 - 6 CFU
AGATA DANIELA MELFA - Modulo THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA - SPS/13 - 6 CFU

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Modalità di svolgimento dell'insegnamento

• THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
  

  The course is based on lectures, but students’ participation in class debate is highly appreciated. In order to facilitate interaction, students will be regularly solicited to provide written and oral insights on specific questions. Primary sources, newspapers, maps, film excerpts, photos and videos will be used during the lessons.

Prerequisiti richiesti

• THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
  

  Basic geographical and historical knowledge, as well as introductory notions on Islam are required.

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Frequenza lezioni

• THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
  

  Attendance is compulsory.

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Contenuti del corso

• THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
  

  The course will deal with the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa from the French expedition to Egypt (1798) to the end of the twentieth century. Several facets of the late-nineteenth-century modernisation will be taken into account (military reforms, secularism, constitutionalism, etc.). Then European imperialism, the emergence of nationalisms and the Middle East state system created after WWI will be analysed. Special attention will be devoted to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Finally, the course will observe the development of Pan-Arabism and Socialism and the subsequent rise of political Islam.

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Testi di riferimento

• THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
  

  James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East. A History, Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford 2011 (3rd edition).

Altro materiale didattico

• THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
  

  Readers for selected documents:

  Marvin E. Gettleman, S. Schaar (eds.), The Middle East and Islamic World Reader, Grove Press, New York 2012 (1st ed. 2003).

  Charles Kurzman, Modernist Islam, 1840-1940 A Sourcebook, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York, 2002.

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Programmazione del corso

THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
	Argomenti	Riferimenti testi
1	The advent of the modern age
2	The nineteenth-century process of modernisation
3	Constitutionalism
4	Imperialism
5	WWI and the Middle East state system
6	National movements
7	The process of state and nation building
8	The birth of modern Turkey
9	The Arab-Israeli conflict
10	Islamism and the Muslim Broterhood
11	Nasser's regime and ideology (Socialism, Pan-Arabism, anti-imperialism)
12	The oil revolution
13	The Iranian Revolution

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Verifica dell'apprendimento

MODALITÀ DI VERIFICA DELL'APPRENDIMENTO

• THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
  

  Assessment will be based on student’s response to class activities and a final oral exam on the course topics.

ESEMPI DI DOMANDE E/O ESERCIZI FREQUENTI

• THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
  

  Analysis of The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane and The Islahat Fermani

  Analysis of The Balfour Declaration

  Definition of neocolonialism and economic nationalism

  Lexicon related to Political Islam (jihad, takfir, jahiliyya, etc.)

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