Module POC2123 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POC2123: Politics of the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
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.
Basic reading:
Edward Said, Orientalism
Asef Bayat, Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
Dina Singerman, Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo
Betty S. Anderson, Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State
Joseph A. Massad, Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan
David Szanton, The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines
Zachary Lockman, Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism and Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States
Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar, Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East
Adam Hanieh, Money, Markets and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East
Donatella Della Ratta, Shooting the Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria.
Sam Cherribi, Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam.
Tarek El-Ariss. Leaks, Hacks and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age.
Mohamed Zayani. Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia.
Daniel Ritter, The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran.
Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran.
Charles Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East.
Mounira Charrad, States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco
Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity