Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
SPS/14 (HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF ASIA)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course
AFRICAN AND ASIAN STUDIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 30/05/2018)
Lesson hours
40 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Students must be familiar with basic concepts about the Middle East history and the tenets of Islam
Learning outcomes
The course aims to elicit students’ knowledge and their ability to comprehend, discuss and analyze key topics of the most important contemporary issues in the MENA
Course contents
Revolutions in the MENA.
The course will analyse 3 macro revolutions that are going on in the area:
The Iranian Revolution;
Women's and gender revolution;
The Arab revolutions.
Teaching methods
teacher's lectures+ discussions on a selection of articles. the discussion will take place on Wednesday based on the articles distributed the previous week
Reccomended or required readings
Unit 1.Ervand,Abrahamian, A history of Iran ,Cambridge UP, 2008.
Unit 2. Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam, Yale University press, 1992.
Unit 3. 1 of the following books:
Anna Vanzan, Primavere rosa. Rivoluzioni e donne in Medio Oriente, Libraccio, 2013;
OR:Asef Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries,Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford University Press, 2017.
Assessment methods
oral examination. each student is requested to write a short paper (about 6000 characters) on a topic related to the course and previously
approved by the teacher
Further information
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