Postgraduate Module Descriptor


ARAM188: The Middle East Since 1945

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level7
Credits30 ECTS Value15
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 2 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Professor Sajjad Rizvi (Lecturer)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

This module deals with the history, culture and politics of the Arab World, Turkey and Iran after the Second World War. Its main aim is to study, in a general manner, the interaction between civil society and Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of new ideologies, such as nationalism on the other. Moreover, Middle Eastern Societies are studied in the context of European rivalries, the Cold War and the onset of globalisation as defining characteristic s of a new world order. In this sense, modernity is understood to constitute a cluster of political, cultural and socio-economic developments which affected the internal dynamics of Middle Eastern history as well as the responses it elicited to meet the new challenges.

Module created

01/10/2007

Last revised

08/04/2013