introduction link to syllabus link to wdi link to c-toolsc-tools
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Introduction
Link to syllabus
Link to WDI
Link to C-Tools
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Introductory Comments
Housekeeping: Roll, adds/drops, office hours, syllabus
Grade based on exams and papers
Comments on textbook and readings
Major themes: Geography and History, and:
Economic: Petroleum/Midas curse, Population, Urban,
Agriculture, Migration, Inflation and Stabilization
Social: Gender, Tribes and Minorities, Islamists
Geographical coverage (maps), chronological coverage
Not much on:
current events of Arab-Israeli conflict
US policy towards region
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MENA map
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Mid-East I
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Jordan, Israel, West Bank & Gaza
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Spread of Islam, 650-1500
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Boundaries of the (Muslim) Middle East, 800, 1550, 1880
Note: Expansion into France by 800 a.d.Expulsion from Spain 1492(Ottoman) expansion into Constantinople/ Istanbul in 1453, and up to Vienna ~1600
These maps underplay the establishment of Islam in western Africa, and evidently do not pretend to display the expansion of Islam into the Indian subcontinent, China, Indonesia, Phillipines, etc.
800
1550
1880
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Edward Said
Born in East Jerusalem, to aChristian family
Was professor of comparativeliterature at Columbia U. in New York.
Wrote Orientalism in 1978.
Had been a member ofPalestinian Council, wasquite critical of Arafat
Died of cancer 2003.
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Short version of Said’s Critique in Orientalism
Orientalists simplified (using crude stereotypes) Muslims, within a context of their cultural inferiority to Western Europeans
People from “the Orient” were depicted as sexual demons
More contemporary Orientalists have worked with a hidden agenda, basically pro-Israel and anti-Arab. Their analyses reflects this bias.
People from the Middle East have suffered because their stories have been told by these Orientalists. It is time to let them be their own representatives.
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Said and Daniel Barenboim
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Barenboim conducting a concert in Mathaf Cultural House, in Gaza, May 2011.
Source: New York Times
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Said practicing rock throwing
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Examples of “Orientalist” Paintings
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Delacroix: Sardana
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Renoir
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Gerome-Whirling Dervish
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Gerome
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Gerome
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T. E. Lawrence
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Lawrence of Arabia Poster
Link to Juan Cole, on the movie
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Yul Brynner
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King Mongkut
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