Module ARA2161 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA2161: The Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module covers the major Islamist movements in the Middle East and Central Asia. Its aim is to explore the behaviour of these movements, understand their ideologies, and compare their similarities and differences in a cross-regional setting. The module will also address the causes and the political consequences of the rise of Islamist movements in the Muslim-majority states.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Understand the role of historical narratives in regional and national conflicts 2. Demonstrate critical familiarity with current historiosophical and historiographical debates about the past; 3. Recognise how crucial is the historical narrative in informing the positions of the elites and people involved in the never ending conflict in Israel and Palestine |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Deconstruct historical writing within a historiographical context; 5. Discuss the works of the professional historiography on both sides within a wider theoretical context 6. Demonstrate acumen in the various methodologies and how the impact historiography |
| Personal and Key Skills | 7. Demonstrate critical and analytical skills through readings, class discussions and presentations 8. Contextualise case studies within wider theoretical discussions |
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.
Ernest Bersiach, Historiography, Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Asima A. Ghazi-Biulion, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process: The Israeli Academia and the Struggle for Identity, London and New York: Routledge 2009.
John Hutchinson and Anthony Smith (eds.), Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford Papers 1994.
George G. Iggers, and Q. Edwards Wang, A Global History of Modern Historiography, Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2008.
Steven Kepnes (ed.), Interpreting Judaism in the post-Modernist Age, New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oxford: One World (2006).
Ilan Pappe (ed.), The Israel/Palestine Question, Second Edition, London and New York, second edition, 2007.
Ilan Pappe, The Modern History Palestine, One Land, Two Peoples, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003; second Edition 2006).
Ilan Pappe. The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951, London and New York: Tauris, 1992 and 1994.
Eli Podeh, The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948-2000, Westport: Bergin and Garway, 2002.
Michal Prior (ed.), Western Scholarship and the History of Palestine, Melisende London 1998.
I. Rotberg (ed.), Israel and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict; Historys Double Helix, Bloomington, Indiana University Press 2006.
Edward Said, The Question of Palestine, New York: Random House, 2003.
Anita Shapira and Derek J. Pensler (eds.), Israeli Historical Revision, From Left to Right, London: Frank Cass, 2003.
