The Great Transformations in the Contemporary Middle East (DHP-H266M)

Fall 2023 · DHP H266M · Tufts University · 1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Examines four great transformations in the contemporary Middle East through biographic trajectories. It will look at the modern and early modern urban social history of the Middle East through the prism of biography and autobiographical writings and how it relates to policies and practices in the current context. Participants will read and discuss key texts on the structural transformations that engulfed the Middle East: The End of the Ottoman Eraand the rise of the colonial states under British and French Mandates; Nationalism and the Nasserist Movement; the Rise of Revolutionary Radicalism; and the Arab Spring and its Aftermath.A number of interpretive social science texts, as well as original diaries, memoirs and autobiographies from a number of Middle Eastern countries.

Course codes: DHP-H266M

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