| source Yale (X) |
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department Modern Middle East Studies (X) |
MMES 101 01 (13296) /HUMS416/HSAR381 MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00
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MMES 102 01 (12174) /HUMS383/NELC102 MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Areas Hu Introduction to the history and cultures of the Middle East, from the rise of Islam to the present, including the Arab world, Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Emphasis on factors important for understanding the Middle East today.
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MMES 103 01 (12686) /INTS425 W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required The ongoing processes of transformation in Africa and the Middle East over the past two decades. The effects of such processes on governance; implications for development policies. Focus on changes in the economic sphere, social relations, and political institutions.
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MMES 105 01 (12688) /AFST372/SOCY372 W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The rise of nationalism in the Maghreb (or Arab West) and Mashriq (or Arab East). Introduction to major debates about nationalism; the influence of transnational (pan-Islamic and pan-Arab) ideologies, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Case studies from North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) and the Middle East (Syria/Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq).
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MMES 171 01 (12696) /NELC402/HIST360 TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu The shaping of society and polity from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258. The origins of Islamic society; conquests and social and political assimilation under the Umayyads and Abbasids; the changing nature of political legitimacy and sovereignty under the caliphate; provincial decentralization and new sources of social and religious power.
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MMES 181 01 (12488) /PLSC389 T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The Middle East and North Africa in comparative perspective. Evaluation of claims that the region?s states are exceptionally violent, authoritarian, or religious. Themes include gender, Islam, nation and state formation, oil wealth, terrorism, and war.
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MMES 182 01 (12632) /INTS350/INRL582/PLSC448 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas So Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Current problems and prospects faced by the economies of Turkey and other Middle Eastern countries. Links between state building, economic development, and democratization in the region. Comparative discussion of how the Turkish economy diverges from others in the Middle East.
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MMES 183 01 (14049) /INRL505/PLSC124 W 9.25-11.25 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Iran's international relations since 1979, with consideration of regional dynamics. Domestic politics that affect the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic.
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MMES 184 01 (10155) /WGSS386 W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required This course will explore the situation and role of women in the Arab world from both psychological and anthropological perspectives and, in particular, how the growing participation of women in political and intellectual life is influencing discourse and practice.
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MMES 191 01 (13329) /RLST100 Fall 2009 Areas Hu
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MMES 192 01 (13331) /RLST170 TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 27) 12/17/2009 Th 2.00 Areas Hu
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MMES 201 01 (12578) /LITR178/NELC156/HUMS420/NELC556 TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas Hu Readings in translation Survey of the literary tradition of the Arabic-Islamic world (West Asia, North Africa, and Muslim Spain), a textual conversation among diverse authors in late antiquity. Prose and poetry from the Qur?an to the
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MMES 250 01 (14180) /REL877/WGSS723/PLSC392 Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Areas So Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Gender studies as an effective tool for analyzing alternate readings of Islam. The dichotomy between ethical and orthodox readings of Islam, focusing on 'women in development'; factors that empower women as agents of change in Muslim societies.
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MMES 311 01 (12196) /WGSS327 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Autobiography in its evolving form as literary genre, historical archive, and individual and community narrative in a changing geographical context. Women's life stories from Afghanistan, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, and Vietnam illustrate the dialectic relationship between the global and the local. What the reading and writing of autobiographies reveal about oneself and one's place in society; how it can be considered a horizontal community formation.
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MMES 407 01 (12173) /NELC407/INRL585/NELC507 Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Major trends of twentieth-century Arab thought, critically examined through readings in translation from a wide range of thinkers. Issues are analyzed in the context of the historical-colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial background from which they emerged.
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MMES 490 01 (12217) /NELC850/NELC490 W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Comprehensive survey of subjects treated in Arabic and Islamic studies, with representative readings from each. Methods and techniques of scholarship in the field, with emphasis on acquiring familiarity with bibliographical and other research tools.
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MMES 498 01 (12394) 1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required The senior essay is a research paper of at least thirty pages (sixty pages for a two-term essay) prepared under the supervision of a faculty member. By the end of the second week of classes of the first term, students meet with advisers to discuss the topic, approach, sources, and bibliography of the essay.
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