{"id":26767,"date":"2025-05-12T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=26767"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:15:40","slug":"hist-2915a-modern-middle-east-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/hist-2915a-modern-middle-east-history\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 2915A: Modern Middle East History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        HIST 2915A: Modern Middle East History\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HIST 2915A: Modern Middle East History<br>Fall 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu-people\/hussam-ahmed\/\">Hussam Ahmed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course will give you the tools necessary to think, read and write critically about the modern Middle East. We will be dealing with the political, social and cultural history of the region following the end of the First World War to the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course starts with a survey of the Ottoman Empire that dominated much of the region from the 16<sup>th<\/sup> Century. We then have a close look at the shifting balance of power with Europe and the rise of European imperialism in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century. Next, we have a close look at how the First World War drew the map of the region as we study the formation of new states and their development in the interwar period. We then follow a number of key issues that have dominated 20<sup>th<\/sup>-Century Middle Eastern history. Among them are, Zionism, Israel and the Palestinian struggle for nationhood; Nasserism and Pan-Arabism; the Lebanese civil war, the Iranian Revolution and the rise of political Islam; the politics of oil and the Gulf War. We end the course with a look at the unprecedented wave of revolutionary activity that engulfed the region in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organization:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This class will meet in person. The class will be organized into two-hour lectures and weekly discussion groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST 2915A: Modern Middle East HistoryFall 2025 Instructor: Hussam Ahmed Course Description:&nbsp; This course will give you the tools necessary to think, read and write critically about the modern Middle East. 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