Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ARA3129: Nationalisms in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

What is nationalism?
Nationalism and nation-state
The Ottoman and Safavid Empires
Arab nationalism
Turkish Nationalism
Egyptian Nationalism
Jewish nationalism
Palestinian Nationalism
Nationalism in Iran
Kurdish nationalism
Review

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching ActivitiesGuided independent studyPlacement / study abroad
221280

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

CategoryHours of study timeDescription
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity 22 Teaching sessions will normally include lecturing and class discussion focussing on individual presentations or on specific learning tasks. Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation of selected primary and secondary sources
Guided Independent study128 A variety of independent study tasks directed by module leader to include reading, engagement in discussion on VLE, regular interaction in seminars, events and office hours outside of class time.

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, USA, 2001


I.Gershoni/J-Jankowsi, Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East, Columbia UP., 1997


M-J.Esman/I.Rabinovic, Ethnicity, Pluralism and the State in the Middle East, Ithaca Press, 1988


Arjomand, S.A. From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, SUNY Press, 1984


Vali, Abbas (ed.) Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism, Costa Mesa, Mazda. 2003


Said, Edward W. The Questions of Palestine, Vintage, 1992.


Rose, Jacqueline, The Question of Zion, Princeton University Press, 2005.

 

see also the ELE page for the module at http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/