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2017-2018 Archived Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Archived Catalog

HIST-266 History of the Modern Middle East

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into ENGL 100   (ACSR-100) or successful completion of RDNG 030   or a minimum score of 20 on the reading portion of the ACT.
This class is an introduction to the social, economic, and political history of the Middle East and North Africa from the late Ottoman Empire to the present. This class examines the impact of imperialism, World War I, nationalism, authoritarianism, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in the late 19th and 20th centuries in light of the problems of global modernity, as well as the more recent phenomena of Islamic fundamentalism and the “Arab Spring” uprisings.