HIS/POL 321 French Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa

This interdisciplinary course examines the colonial and postcolonial history of North Africa and the Middle East in the context of the region's close connections to Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the interconnectedness of economic, political, and cultural phenomena. This course will cover Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia as well as their relationships to the history of French colonialism. While the period of sustained European imperial control over North Africa began as early as 1830 in Algeria and as late as 1911-12 in Libya and Morocco, decolonization was almost complete in the region by the early 1960s.