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2026 Spring

The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - POS370/POS670 Spring 202


Course
Ebru Akcasu
For information about registration please contact our admissions.

Here is the course outline:

1. Introductions, Course Expectations, Class Rules

2. Freedom from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

3. At the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century

4. A "New Order" Part I: Ottoman

5. A "New Order" Part II: Qajar

6. Guest Lecture

7. Constitutionalism, Absolutism, Revolution

8. World War I and the Making of the Modern Middle East

9. Midterm Exam

10. An Environmental History of the Modern Middle East

11. A Capitalist History of the Modern Middle East

12. Culminating Experience Presentations

13. Culminating Experience Presentations

14. Translatability, Transferability, Universality

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