Course:

PS 3020/MES 3020  Muslim Political Thought and Anticolonialism

Professor:

Pinar Kemerli  

CRN:

16244

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Philosophy; Political Studies; Study of Religions

This course explores 20th Century Muslim political thought as a modern experience of critique and resistance in the context of decolonization. It will start with an overview of the colonial situation and mid-century dynamics of decolonization and move to the works of influential theorists and activists who offered insurgent and revolutionary Muslim political ideas and ideals. Our purpose is to understand how these thinkers responded to colonial domination, imperialism and capitalist exploitation by mobilizing traditional and vernacular Islamic idioms of dissent, refusal and resistance, and in the process offered alternative visions of emancipation, justice, and dignity. We will examine both the promise and limitations of these visions within the context of their historical careers and implementations. The final part of the course focuses on the reception of these Muslim theories and thinkers in Euro-America especially within the context of the Global War on Terror and new forms of imperial domination and Islamophobia thereby unleashed. Thinkers covered include Sayyid Qutb, Ali Shariati, Malcolm X, Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, Humeira Iqtidar and Jaspir K. Puar.

 

Course:

MES/LIT 303  Petroculture

Professor:

Elizabeth Holt  

CRN:

15725

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 308

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Literature, Science, Technology, Society

This course joins a growing movement to imagine a world after oil, focusing on North America’s relationship with the Middle East. We will read from the Petrocultures group and a broad range of work produced in English and Arabic – from Allen Ginsberg and William Faulkner, to Shell Oil, to the Iraq Petroleum Company, to Amitav Ghosh, to Ghassan Kanafani and Abdelrahman Munif – in order to historicize and theorize the literary formations, aesthetics and metaphors produced by and productive of petroleum. This course is part of the World Literature Course offering.

 

Course:

MES 2030  Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The History of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

Professor:

Dina Ramadan  

CRN:

15965

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 205

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 2

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American Studies; Human Rights

On August 9, 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. One month earlier, Israel had launched Operation Protective Edge, a fifty-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip. As a militarized police force fired tear gas and rubber bullets on protestors in Ferguson, Gazans tweeted advice on how to deal with such violent tactics. The summer of 2014 reinvigorated joint efforts between Black and Palestinian liberation movements. However, Black-Palestinian solidarity has a long history, dating back to the 1960s. In this course, we will examine the internationalist nature of both movements, situating Black activism in the US within the broader context of decolonial projects throughout the global South, and exploring the ways in which Palestine became a symbol of anti-colonial struggles. We also highlight the establishment of the Mizrahi Black Panthers within Israel in 1971 as an important moment of solidarity between Arab Jews and Palestinians, in dialogue with international anti-racist liberation movements. Readings will include works by leading black activists such as Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and Angela Davis as well as literary and poetic engagement by Arab and Arab-American writers. This two-credit course will meet for the last eight weeks of the semester.

 

Cross-listed courses:

 

Course:

ANTH 257  Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East

Professor:

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins  

CRN:

15576

Schedule/Location:

Mon   Thurs    1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Hegeman 102

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 20

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

ANTH 369  Middle Eastern Diasporas

Professor:

Jeff Jurgens  

CRN:

15579

Schedule/Location:

Mon       9:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

ARAB 102  Elementary Arabic

Professor:

Ziad Dallal  

CRN:

15508

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    8:50 AM – 9:50 AM Olin Languages Center 118

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

ARAB 202  Intermediate Arabic II

Professor:

Dina Ramadan  

CRN:

15509

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed     10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin Languages Center 206

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

ARAB 302  Advanced Arabic II

Professor:

Elizabeth Holt  

CRN:

15510

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin Languages Center 206

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

ARTH 140  Survey of Islamic Art

Professor:

Katherine Boivin  

CRN:

15498

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Fisher Studio Arts ANNEX

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 23

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Medieval Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

ARTH 213  Power, Piety, and Pleasure: The Art of the Mughal Empire

Professor:

Heeryoon Shin  

CRN:

15569

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 205

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

FREN 306  Representing Violence: The Algerian War and its Afterlives

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay  

CRN:

15546

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:30 PM – 5:50 PM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

HIST 185  The Making of the Modern Middle East

Professor:

Omar Cheta  

CRN:

15604

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

HIST 2255  Shari’a and the History of Middle Eastern Society

Professor:

Omar Cheta  

CRN:

15607

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies; Study of Religions

 

Course:

HR 379  Exhibiting (Im)mobility: Art, Museums, Migration

Professor:

Dina Ramadan  

CRN:

15669

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Art History; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

LIT 2071  Modernity and Modernism in the Arabic Literature

Professor:

Ziad Dallal  

CRN:

15708

Schedule/Location:

Mon   Thurs    1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

REL 108  Religions of the World

Professor:

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed  

CRN:

15614

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Global & International Studies; Medival Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Theology

 

Course:

REL 328  The River and the Desert in Writing and the Religious Imagination

Professor:

Shai Secunda  

CRN:

15620

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     9:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 10

Crosslists: Jewish Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Written Arts

 

Course:

REL 336  Sufism

Professor:

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed  

CRN:

15621

Schedule/Location:

Mon       12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Medival Studies; Middle Eastern Studies