Nationalisms and Islamisms of the Middle East

Catalog description

This is an introductory course on selected ideologies of the Middle East in seminar form; it presupposes only basic knowledge of the region as well as previous exposure to comparative politics. The course surveys the historical and political trajectories of selected nationalisms and Islamist ideologies in the Middle East: Pan-Arabism, various Arab territorial nationalisms, Zionisms, Turkish nationalisms, Kurdish nationalisms and various strains of Islamism. May be taught concurrently with PLS 649. Cannot receive credit for both PLS 443 and PLS 649.