HIST 501RModern Middle East Colloquium

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HIST 501R - Modern Middle East Colloquium Professor Kent Schull Fall 2022 Course Description: This seminar is designed to introduce graduate students to some of the most important ideas and debates in the field of modern Middle Eastern history and place those ideas and debates within the context of general historiographic trends. Such debates include Orientalism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Social history, Socio-legal history, Migrations, War and Society, Gender, Revolution, Religion and Society, State Formation, Modernity, WWI, and Class, among others. It is hoped that this course will provide a general foundation for students studying for their comprehensive examinations. Please be advised that this class will not provide a narrative of modern Middle Eastern history, nor do the topics necessarily follow in chronological order. Students are expected to have already acquired at least a rudimentary knowledge of modern Middle Eastern history from previous coursework or from their own reading.