Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ARAM131: Nationalisms in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

What is a Nation?

Ethnosymbolism and Nationalism

Zionism and Israeli Nationalism

Colonialism and Nationalism

Algerian Nationalism

Modernity and Nationalism

Turkish Nationalism

Religion and Nationalism

Egyptian Nationalism

Iranian Nationalism

War and Nationalism Nationalism

Learning and Teaching

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

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
33	126	0

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

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	33	Classroom hours (11x2 hour seminars and 11x1 hour weekly tutorials)
Guided independent study	46	Preparation and writing of summative essay
Guided independent study	51	Reading for each class
Guided Independent Study	20	Preparing presentations for each class

Online Resources

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

https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3604

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.