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HIS 5085: Conflict in the Modern Middle East (3 cr.)

In late winter 2011, revolutions broke out

throughout the Middle East and North Africa

resulting in regime change in at least three

countries while seriously challenging

long-standing governments (many of which receive

support from Western powers) in several others.

However, the so-called "Arab Spring" was hardly

the first large-scale coordinated political

movement in this region to be driven largely

"from below." This course aims to investigate the

past century of revolutions, social movements,

and political change in the Middle East, starting

from the Urabi revolts in Egypt in the late 1880s

to the uprisings of 2011. We will focus on the

ways in which state elites, imperial powers, and

other powerful groups have attempted to shape

Middle Eastern politics, society, and economy to

fit their own interests. More importantly,

however, we will focus on how non-elite social

groups, dynamic societal forces and diverse

popular political movements have responded to and

resisted these efforts, and the ways in which

their struggles have shaped the history of this

region.

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