General

Announcements

Lori's Office Hours - Book here: Tuesdays, 9-11

Sophia's Office Hours Sign Up Sheet

Icebreaker: Your name, location, reason for taking this module, something else (a hobby, an interesting thing about yourself, whatever you'd like to share)

Open Forum -- a place for students to discuss whatever from or about this class

Middle East Center talks - UC Santa Cruz

26 October: Anti-Black Racism in the Middle East

12th November: Darryl Lee Book Talk on "The Universal Enemy" at the University of Edinburgh

13 November_Noura Erakat: "Contemporary Renewals of Black-Palestinian Solidarity: Geographies of Intimacy"

Course Evaluation

Announcements

Assignments- Assessment

Student Group Presentations Sign Up Sheet

Model Response Paper

Model opinion-editorial: When War Comes Home

Essay questions

AS1

AS2

AS3

SP1

Doing research online - a guide

Essay writing advice from Dr Jakob Klein

Model Essay + Lori's comments

Sophia talking through Model Essay

Asynchronous Tutorial Notification

Introductory Stuff

Netiquette- Do, Don't, What If -rules for online learning

Syllabus (= module description, reading list, assessment deadlines, writing tips, etc.)=READ THIS CAREFULLY!

Lori introduction video

Syllabus explanation--pt1

Syllabus explanation-pt.2

Syllabus explanation-transcript

Syllabus explanation FORUM--please reply

Survey--What do you know about the Middle East? (Please do not anonymise your answer if you can help it.)

CHECK IT OUT: Other interesting things about the Middle East (seminars, conferences, events, etc.)

London Palestine Film Festival (online edition)

THURS 26/11: Where did the revolution go? A discussion with Iraqi activists from Baghdad

Week 1 -Orientalism and the politics of knowledge

Nadjmabadi reading

Nadjmabadi reading guide/discussion questions

Lecture 1 - pt.1

Lecture 1- Pt.2

Lecture 1 - Pt.3

Lecture 1-Pt.4

Forum Questions for Lecture 1- Please respond here

Opening Music: "When She Begins to Sway" "Lema beda yatathanna"

Week 1 Session recording - discussing online teaching/learning, class process, etc.

Week 2 - The state and the political power of symbols

Alice Wilson-interview questions

Wilson - Chapter 3: Sovereignty, law...

Syrian revolution explained - cartoon

Syria background notes

Archival document - petition to League of Nataions

Week 2 POWERPOINT-updated

WEEK 2 Lecture_Pt1_VIDEO

Lecture 2_Pt2_Video

Week 2_Lecture-Pt1_AUDIO

Lecture 2_Pt2_AUDIO

Week 2 Lecture Forum

Week 2 Tutorial Forum

Sahrawi music - Mariem Hassan is regarded the most representative voice of the music of Western Sahara

Sahrawi music - great animated video and lyrics translated in the comments

Sahrawi music- wedding party!

Syria political backgrounder; interview with Prof. Yezid Sayigh

UG Tutorial recording

Week 3 - Lebanon and confessionalism

Week 3_Audio only_Parts 1-2-3

Week 3_Lecture_Pt.1

Week 3_Lecture_Pt.2

Lecture 3_Pt3

UG Tutorial Recording

Sami Hermez interview questions

Wee 3_Sami Hermez interview

Week 3_Sami Hermez AUDIO ONLY

Ussama Makdisi, The Modernity of Sectarianism in Lebanon Reconstructing the Nation-State

Armenian Genocide - brief overview encyclopedia article

Podcast on the Armenian genocide

Please post your forum responses and responses to other students' comments here

Asynchronous tutorial substitute-- post your responses (as described in syllabus) if you could not make it to the synchronous tutorial here

Week 5_ Transnationalism & Solidarity _ POWERPOINT

AlQaws (grassroots activist group for sexual and gender diversity in Palestine) - brief article on pink washing & colonialism

Week 9 POWERPOINT: Infrastructure & Iraq