| source Georgetown (X) |
level |
department Arab Studies (X) |
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Credits: 3
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This course introduces students to the study of contemporary Arab society, in both broad conceptual terms as well as details of daily life. After gaining a general background to the history, geography, and demography of the Arab world, students will study cultural trends, political movements, religiosity, family, gender, labor, and reproduction, among other topics. The course will also focus critically on the variety of methods used to study the modern Arab world.
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
A seminar on cultural, political and economic impacts of modern information technologies in the Arab world, comparing theories about communications and media with regional experience of direct satellite broadcasting, computer networks and cellular telephones. Students will have opportunities to work on projects that develop familiarity with issues and terms in which electronic technologies relate to regional cultures of communications media and technology profiles of Middle Eastern countries.
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Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
An introduction to the theoretical paradigms and the methodologies most appropriate to the study of the Arab World. Covers a spectrum of approaches from Islamic textual analysis and philologically based orientalism through liberal, radical paradigms to modern textual and discourse analysis.
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For students with some background in Middle East studies, this course introduces recent anthropological research and perspectives on the region and particularly on expressive cultures that make regional societies "complex". It focuses on how anthropologists bring local discourse into perspective and construct cultural interpretations of authority, community, religion, society, gender and ethnic identities within and across characteristic social settings from domestic to public life, government and religion.
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Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
This graduate seminar examines the history of Iraq from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the American invasion of 2003. The course will initially briefly analyze the pre-WWI Islamic period concentrating on issues such as the Sunni-Shiâi division, the concept of khilafa (caliphate), and the impact of foreign invasions and Ottoman rule on Mesopotamian society. The focus will then shift to the creation of Iraq by the British under a League of Nations Mandate, the retention after Iraqâs independenceâwith minor modificationsâof the political, administrative, and economic system introduced by the British, and why this system produced a regime such as that of Saddam Hussein. The seminar will also analyze the situation of women and minorities in Iraqi society, and Iraqâs relations with its neighbors.
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Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page
Designed to explore samples of short fiction written in the second half of the last century by men and women in Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco, the course will expose students to some of the authors' thematic and formal innovations. It will also raise three key questions: how relevant are these stories to modern Maghribi societies; to what extent are they part of a larger picture of modern Arabic fiction? Can the Maghreb claim a narrative voice of its own? The course will be conducted in Arabic and give students an opportunity to review and learn more salient points of grammar as well as build up vocabulary.
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Credits: 3
Score: 11.52648 Details | Listing | Web page