The Modern Middle East

HSTAFM 163
  • Quarters: Autumn
  • General Education Requirements: I&S, DIV

Provides an introduction the politics, society, and culture of the Middle East since the 19th century and through the present. Aims to foster an understanding of imperial power and anti-imperialism, ethnicity and sectarianism, religious and secular sociopolitical movements, authoritarianism, and the transformations wrought by modernity and economic development.