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MAAS-512 Society, Self & Community in the Arab World

MAAS-512-01 Society, Self & Community in the Arab World
Spring only
Faculty:
  • Davis, Rochelle
    • This course will cover a broad range of material about individual and collective identity within the contemporary Arab world. We will explore different historical and contemporary notions of what constitutes community and society and how individuals are both seen and see themselves within the complex modern world. By attending to different perspectives on and layers to identity (national, religious, regional, ethnic, class, linguistic, etc.) as well as ideas about “tradition” and “modernity”, we will focus on how individual and communal identity practices have meaning within contemporary society, as well as resistance to and distortion of those practices.

    Books recommended for purchase:

    _I Saw Ramallah_ by Murid Barghouti (any edition) (current paperback is by Anchor;* *ISBN: 1400032660)

    _Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq_ by Riverbend (The Feminist Press at CUNY, ISBN: 1558614893)

    _Politics of Piety_ by Saba Mahmoud (Princeton U Press, ISBN 06910865958)
    Credits: 3
    Prerequisites: None
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