Middle Eastern Studies 397E - ST-Ethnic&ReligiousConflict/Mi

Spring
2019
01
3.00
Ahmad Mohammadpour
TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
22369
Herter Hall room 211
amohammadpou@umass.edu
This course aims to acquaint the students with an historical background of the ethnic and religious conflicts in the Modern Middle East during the last century to the present. This course will give specific attention to the defining features of inter and intra-territorial conflicts exist in the region with a focus on the underlying dynamics of continuity and change present in the region in line with contemporary international politics. We will begin with a review of the birth of Middle East as a politically forged entity in the wake of Ottoman collapse and then remains focused on the major socio-political trends including but not limited to the rise of Arab, Persian and Turkish Nationalism, Islamist Politics, Kurdish Question, Israeli- Palestine conflict, Shia/Sunni division, Arab Spring, ISIS and others. This course qualifies for the Middle Eastern Studies Major or Minor.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.