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153400060-A19-20 Government and Politics of the Middle East EXAM-REPLACEMENT ESSAY LATE SUMMER 2021

Term 1, Week 1: Introduction

Tareq and Jacqueline Ismael eds., 'Introduction' in Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East, Routledge, 2012

Said, Edward. Orientalism, focus on pp. 31-73

Jack Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs (2006)

Watch: Edward Said, On Orientalism documentary

Week 1 Introduction GPME

Term 1, Week 2: The 'Middle East' and the Politics of Knowledge

Said, Edward, Orientalism, London, 1978, pp. 31-92 (reread pp.31-73 from last week and read on to p. 92)

Lockman, Zachary, Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004: Chapter Six: ‘Said’s Orientalism: A Book and its Aftermath’, pp. 182-214

Recommended: Al-Azm, Sadeq Jalal. Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse

Term 1, Week 3: Concepts in Middle East Politics: Culture and Class

Milton-Edwards, B. Contemporary Politics of the Middle East, third edition, 2011: Chapter Eight, ‘Ethnicity and Minorities’

Kyle Anderson, ‘Lost and Found, then Lost Again: The Social History of Workers and Peasants in the Middle East’, History Compass, 2016.

Term 1, Week 4: Ottoman and Colonial Legacies

Owen, R. State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London: Routledge, 2004, Chapter 1: ‘The End of Empires’ - via Ebrary

Owen, R. State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London: Routledge, 2004, Chapter 1: ‘The End of Empires’ - PDF

Pappé, Ilan, The Modern Middle East, London: Routledge, 2014, Chapter 1: pp. 23-32

Cleveland, William, and Martin Bunton. A History of the Modern Middle East. 5th ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 2012: chapter 11.

Week 4 Empire GPME 2019

Term 1, Week 5: Resistance to Colonialism

Joel Beinin, Zachary Lockman, ‘Conclusion,’ in Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882- 1954, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987

Swedenburg, Ted. ‘The Role of the Palestinian Peasantry in the Great Revolt, 1936-1939,’ in Edmund Burke and Ira Lapidus, Eds., Islam, Politics, and Social Movements University of California Press, 1988: 169-203.

Khoury, Philip, “The Paradoxical in Arab Nationalism: Interwar Syria Revisited,” in James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni, eds., Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East, New York, NY, 1997, pp. 273-287.

Zahlan, Rosemarie. ‘Political Developments in Bahrain,’ in The Making of the Modern Gulf States. Read pp. 59-74.

Halliday, Fred, The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, chapter 3: Modern State Formation (only Recommended)

Week 5 Resistance to Colonialism GPME

Term 1, Week 7: State Building and the Military after Independence

Owen, R. State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London: Routledge, 2004, Chapter 2: ‘The Growth of State Power in the Arab world: The single-party regimes.’ - available via Ebrary

Owen, R. State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London: Routledge, 2004, Chapter 8: 'The Military In and Out of Politics' - available via Ebrary

Abul-Magd, Zainab. ‘Egypt’s Adaptable Officers: Power, Business, And Discontent’, ISPI, 2014, ONLY pp. 1-5

Week 7 State-building after Independence GPME

Term 1, Week 8: Ideology (1) Nationalism in the Arab World

Milton-Edwards, Beverley (2011) Contemporary Politics of the Middle East: chapter 2: 'Nationalism'

Ajami, Fouad, ‘The End of Pan-Arabism’, Foreign Policy, vol. 57, no. 2 Winter 1978/9

Nafaa, Hassan, in Farah; Pan Arabism and Arab Nationalism, Chapter 7, Westview, 1987

El-Mahdi, Rabab (2011) 'The New Arabism from Below', Ahram Online.

Week 8 Arab Nationalism

Term 1, Week 9: Political Economy after Independence: ‘Modernisation’ and its Limits

Richards &amp; Waterbury - A Political Economy of the Middle East, Chapter 7: The Emergence of the Public Sector

Nazih Ayubi, Over-Stating the Arab State, Chapter 9 - Bureaucratic Growth: Development Versus Control - SOAS library also has e-book

GPME - Lecture 9 - Economic Modernisation and its limits

Term 1, Week 10: Ideology (2) Non-Arab Nationalisms

Owen, ‘State and Politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War,’ in State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, London: Routledge, pg 84-102 via ebrary

Oktem, Kerem. ‘Empire and Nation Before 1980: The Late Ottoman State and the Turkish Republic,’ Angry Nation, London: Zed, 2011, pp. 20-39.

Grigoriadis, I, and Ansari, A, ‘Turkish and Iranian Nationalisms’, in Choueiri, Y. A Companion to the History of the Middle East - ONLY pp. 320-332

Week 10 Non-Arab Nationalism

Term 1, Week 11: Ideology (3) Religion in Politics

Milton-Edwards, B. Contemporary Politics in the Middle East, chapter 5: ‘Past, Present and Future Politics: Political Islam,’ 144-172. - Important reading: Find in the library

Eickelman, Dale, and James Piscatori. Muslim Politics. 2nd ed. Princeton University Press, 2004: Chapter 2: ‘The Invention of Tradition in Muslim Politics.’

Masalha, Nur. ‘Jewish Fundamentalism, Greater Israel and the Palestinians,’ in Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansionism. London: Pluto, 2000, ONLY pp. 105-121.

Week 11 Religion and Politics

Term 2, Week 1: Gender and Politics

Afsaneh Najmabadi, “(Un)Veiling Feminism” in Social Text 18(3), 2000, 29-45.

Lila Abu-Lughod, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others” in American Anthropologist, 2002, 104(3), 783-790.

Sholkamy, Hania, “Women are Also Part of this Revolution”, in Bahgat Korany; Rabab El-Mahdi (eds) Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution and Beyond, Cario, American University in Cairo Press, 2012, pp. 153-174

GPME - Term 2, Lecture 1 - Gender and Politics

Term 2, Week 2: Economic Liberalisation and its Limits

Milton-Edwards: Riches of A Region

Owen: The Politics of Economic Restructuring

Richards &amp; Waterbury

Steffen Hertog - The Political Economy of Distribution in the Middle East: Is There Scope for a New Social Contract?

GPME Term 2, Lecture 3 – Economic Liberalisation and its Limits

Term 2, Week 3: Political Liberalisation and its Limits

Sadowski, Yahya. ‘The New Orientalism and the Democracy Debate,’ Chapter 3 in Joel Beinin and Joel Stork eds., Political Islam: Essays from 9 Middle East Report reprinted from Middle East Report, no. 183, July- August 1993: 14-21.

Hinnebusch, R., ‘Authoritarian Persistence, Democratization Theory and the Middle East: An overview and critique’

Milton-Edwards, ‘Democratization: New Politics, Old Problems.’ URL Edit Students can manually mark this item complete: Milton-Edwards, Beverley (2011) Contemporary Politics of the Middle East: Chapter Six: ‘Democratization: New Politics, Old Problems.’

Tsourapas, G. ‘The Other Side of a Neoliberal Miracle: Economic Reform and Political De-Liberalization in Ben Ali’s Tunisia’

Eva Bellin - Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring

Richards & Waterbury - A Political Economy of the Middle East, Chapter 7: The Emergence of the Public Sector

Richards & Waterbury