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The Middle East in Contemporary History - Period 5+6
Social Sciences & Humanities Program
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates: 1/29/21 - 6/26/21
The Middle East in Contemporary History - Period 5+6
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: History
Instruction in: English
Course Code: L_GWBAGES216
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84
Prerequisites: Students are recommended to familiarise themselves with news outlets such as Aljazeera International, the map of the Middle East and sectarian differences in Islam.
DESCRIPTION
In the midst of what ICJ called a plausible genocide in Gaza, some in the Global North said, 'the situation in the Middle East should not divide us'; however, the question remains: what and where is this Middle East? This course addresses these questions by diving into the Middle East's historiographies, histories and memories to open up its political-historical construction. The course discusses how past and present influence the armed conflicts in the Middle East and how historiographies have shaped the dominant imagination of the Global North about the peoples of the Middle East.
This course unpacks the notion of Empire and Dispossession through revolutionary thinkers whose criticism of colonialism shaped colonial struggles against French and British mandates in the Middle East and their legacy have enabled resistance against Middle Eastern authoritarian regimes and also Israel as the ongoing colonial settler project. Furthermore, it shows Empire is mode of persistent domination that impacts of decolonized nations through cultural framing, Racialisations and border regimes.
This course engages with Middle Eastern thinkers such as Nazik Al-Abid, Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi to Edward Said to introduce Orientalism and Islamophobic framing of Muslims and peoples of the contemporary Middle East. The course also discusses Racism and Aryanism within the Middle East (the case of Iran), and it ends by engaging the cultural politics of images, visuals, aesthetics and objects in and from the Middle East.
This course operates through academic dialogues that begin from the point of view of dispossessed and colonised peoples such as Palestinians and engages with literature that radically criticised and dismantled perspectives of the Dominant.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.
This course unpacks the notion of Empire and Dispossession through revolutionary thinkers whose criticism of colonialism shaped colonial struggles against French and British mandates in the Middle East and their legacy have enabled resistance against Middle Eastern authoritarian regimes and also Israel as the ongoing colonial settler project. Furthermore, it shows Empire is mode of persistent domination that impacts of decolonized nations through cultural framing, Racialisations and border regimes.
This course engages with Middle Eastern thinkers such as Nazik Al-Abid, Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi to Edward Said to introduce Orientalism and Islamophobic framing of Muslims and peoples of the contemporary Middle East. The course also discusses Racism and Aryanism within the Middle East (the case of Iran), and it ends by engaging the cultural politics of images, visuals, aesthetics and objects in and from the Middle East.
This course operates through academic dialogues that begin from the point of view of dispossessed and colonised peoples such as Palestinians and engages with literature that radically criticised and dismantled perspectives of the Dominant.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.