PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE EAST: COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Syllabus
Source of readings: ( R) for Reader. “Cleveland”, “Joseph”, “Kanaaneh” for books at the UC D bookstore. These books are also on reserve in Shields Library. Selections from other books are in the Reader (at Navin’s) and these book are also on reserve. Articles from journals are in the Reader, but the article is not on reserve. Lectures in 106 Olsen 9-10:20 TR
Jan 8 I. Middle of What? East of Whom? Since When?
Dale Eickelman “Anthropology, The Middle East & Central Asia” pp1-26 ( R) In Eickelman
Jan 13 II. Early Historical Background to the Modern Middle East
Cleveland pp 4-9, 36-39; 40-58
Jan 15 Cleveland pp 59-101
Jan 20 III. Approaches to the Study of the Modern Middle East
Dale Eickelman “Scholarly Interests” & “Functionalism” 42-52 (R) In Eickelman
Edward Said, “Orientalism” 1-28 (R) In Said.
Jan 22 Lila Abu-Lughod “Anthropology’s Orient: The Boundaries of Theory on the Arab World” pp 81-131. ( R) In Sharabi
Hania Sholkamy “Why is Anthropology so Hard on Egypt?” pp119-138 ( R) In Shami
Jan 27 IV Kinship and Families
Afsaneh Najmabadi “Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran” pp 91-124 ( R) In Abu-Lughod
Jenny B. White “The Patriarch” “Mothers & Sons” pp 57-83 ( R) In White
Jan 29 V. Masculinities
Julie Peteet “Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence” 1994 American Ethnologist 21:1:31-49. ( R)
Danny Kaplan “The Military as a Second Bar Mitzvah: Combat Service as Initiation to Zionist Masculinity” pp 127-144 ( R) In Ghassoub.
Feb 3 VI. Femininities
Malek Alloula “Women from the Outside: Obstacles and Transparencies” pp7-15 ( R) In Alloula
Suad Joseph “Eyes of Indirection” pp 302-309 ( R) In Fernea
Feb 5 Film: Four Women of Egypt
TEN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES DUE IN CLASS [keep two sets for your use]
Feb 10 VII. Family and State
Mounira Charrad “Lineage Versus Individual in Tunisia and Morocco” pp70- 88 In Joseph
Suad Joseph “Civic Myths, Citizenship and Gender in Lebanon” pp 107-136 In Joseph
Feb 12 MIDTERM EXAM
Feb 17 VIII. State Building & Citizenship: Turkey & Iran
William Cleveland on Turkey pp 172-181, pp 267-277 . In Cleveland
Yesim Arat “Gender and Citizenship in Turkey” pp 275-286 In Joseph
Feb 19 William Cleveland on Iran pp 182-189, pp 279-292. In Cleveland
Homa Hoodfar “Iranian Women at the Intersection of Citizenship and the Family Code: The Perils of ‘Islamic Criteria’” pp 287-313 In Joseph
Feb 24 IX. Nation and Nationalism: Palestine
Rhoda Kanaaneh Birthing the Nation. Introduction, Chaps 1&2 pp 1-103
Feb 26 Rhoda Kanaaneh Birthing the Nation. Chaps 3,4,5, Conclusion pp 104-256
Mar 2 X. Palestine & Israel
William Cleveland pp 233-64, 336-58, 458-499 In Cleveland
Barbara Swirski “The Citizenship of Jewish and Palestinian Arab Women in Israel” pp 314-346 In Joseph
Mar 4 XI. Islam
William Cleveland pp 8-19, 20-36 In Cleveland
Dale Eickelman “Islam and the Religions of the Book” pp 249-323 ( R) In Eickelman
PAPERS DUE IN CLASS MAR 4 [ turn in paper AND one set of the newspaper articles]
Mar 9 Islam & Politics
William Cleveland pp 117-129, 410-436, 513-517
Bernard Lewis “The Class of Civilizations” pp 345-348 ( R) In Bettleman
Edward Said “The Class of Ignorance” pp 349-353 ( R) in Bettleman
Mar 11 XII. Representations
Jack Shaheen “Introduction” pp 1-37 ( R) In Shaheen
Walter Armburst “Bourgeois Leisure and Egyptian Media Fantasies” pp 106- 132 ( R) In Eickelman & Anderson
Ella Shohat, “The Bourekas and Sephardi Representation” pp 115-154 ( R) In Shohat
Mar 16 XIII. Diasporas
Nadine Naber “Ambiguous Insiders: an Investigation of Arab American Invisibility”. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2000: 23:1:37-61 ( R)
Film: Arabs of Detroit
FINAL EXAM: MARCH 20, Saturday 4-6pm, in 106 Olsen
Source of Readings:
1. Reader is at Navin’s on Third Street, one block East of A street.
2. Books in UC Davis Bookstore and on reserve in Shields Library:
William Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle East. 2000, Boulder, CO: Westview
Suad Joseph, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. 2000, Syracuse: Syracuse U. P.
Rhoda Kanaaneh, Birthing the Nation. Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel. 2002, Berkeley, U. California P.
3. Chapters from Books. The chapters are in the Reader and the books from which the chapters came are on Reserve in Shields Library.
Abu-Lughod, Lila, ed., Remaking Women. Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. 1998. Princeton: Princeton U.P.
Alloula, Malek. The Colonial Harem. 1986. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P.
Eickelman, Dale. The Middle East and Central Asia. An Anthropological Approach. 1998. Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Prentice Hall
Eickelman, Dale & John Anderson. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere 1999. Bloomington: Indiana U.P.
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, ed. Remembering Childhood in the Middle East. Memoirs from a Century of Change. 2002. Austin: U of Texas P.
Gettleman, Marvin E. & Stuart Schaar, eds. The Middle East and Islamic World Reader. 2003. New York: Grove Press.
Ghoussoub, Mai & Emma Sinclair-Webb, eds. Imagined Masculinities. Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East. 2000. London: Saqi
Majaj, Lisa Suhair & Paul W. Sunderman & Therese Saliba, eds. Intersections. Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women’s Novels. 2002. Syracuse: Syracuse U. P.
Shaheen, Jack G. Reel Bad Arabs. How Hollywood Vilifies a People. 2001. New York: Olive Branch P.
Said, Edward. Orientalism. 1978 New York: Vintage Books.
Shami, Seteney & Linda Herera, eds. 1999 Between Field and Text: Emerging Voices in Egyptian Social Science. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.
Sharabi, Hisham, ed. 1990. Theory, Politics and the Arab World. New York: Routledge.
Shohat, Ella Israeli Cinema. East/West and the Politics of Representation. 1989. Austin: U Texas P.
White, Jenny B. Money Makes Us Relatives. Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey. 1994. Austin: U Texas P.
4. Articles from Journals.
Please note that articles from journals are found only in the READER. They are not on reserve in Shields library.