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Approaches and Perspectives in MENA Studies (411-0-20)

Topic

New Histories of the Middle East

Instructors

Ipek Kocaomer Yosmaoglu
847/491-3154
Harris Hall Room 214

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 3-410: Wed 3:00PM - 5:50PM

Overview of class

This course introduces graduate students to key scholarly literature in the field of Middle East and North African studies. The works considered will have a historical focus, but not an exclusively historical method. The question we will try to answer is "what is the intellectual provenance of the work we are reading now?" The reading list showcases a recent work along with (relatively) older scholarly literature on the same theme each week. This is not meant to provide a foil of "outdated" work against which the new books may favorably compared—to the contrary, encouraging the students to think about the full contribution and importance of older scholarship and even "orientalist" works is one of the primary aims of this seminar.