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V. Suggested Readings

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Abu El-Haj, Nadia. Excavating the Land, Creating the Homeland: Archaeology, the State and the Making of History in Modern Jewish Nationalism (Ph. D. dissertation, Duke University, 1995).

Badran, Margot. "Competing Agenda: Feminists, Islam and the State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt." Women, Islam and the State, ed. D. Kandiyoti. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Pp. 201-236.

Badran, Margot, and Miriam Cooke. Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Baron, Beth. "The Construction of National Honour in Egypt." Gender and History. 5:2 (Summer 1993), 244-255. Bayomi, Khaled. "Nahdah visions and political realities in the Arab East - the inevitable war!" (http://www.hf- fak.uib.no/smi/paj/Bayomi.html).

Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Hobsbawn, E. J. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Ibrahim, Saad Eddin. "Management and mismanagement of diversity: The case of ethnic conflict and nation-building in the Arab World" (http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/paj/Ibrahim.html)

Jackson, Leonard. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.

Kedourie, Elie. Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Kopola, Nelli. "Definitions of Algerian Women: Citizenship, Participation and Exclusion" (http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/paj/Kopola.html).

LaBianca, Øystein. "Indigenous hardiness structures and state formation in Jordan. Towards a history of Jordan's resident Arab population" (http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/paj/LaBianca.htm)

Layoun , Mary. "Telling Spaces: Palestinian Women and the Engendering of National Narratives." In Nationalities and Sexualities, ed. Andrew Parker and et. al. New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 407- 423.

Megill, Allan, "Recounting the Past: Description, Explanation, and Narrative in Historiography." The American Historical Review. 94:3 (1989). 627-653.

Prakash, Gyan, "Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Indian Historiography is Good to Think." In Colonialism and Culture. Edited by Nicholas B. Dirks. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. 353-388. Radhakrishnan, R. "Nationalism, Gender, and Narratives of Identity. In Nationalisms and Sexualities. Edited by A. Parker, M. Russo, D. Sommer, and P. Yaeger. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Renan, Ernest. "What is a Nation?" Trans. by Martin Thom. In Nation and Narration. Edited by Homi K. Bhabha. London; New York: Routledge, 1990. 8-22.

Rosander, Eva. "Female Linkage in Morocco and Senegal" (http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/paj/Rosander.html).

Taj al-Saltana, Crowing Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity, trans. by Anna Vanzan and Amin Neshati (Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 1993).

White, Hayden. "The Historical text as Literary Artifact." In Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Critcism. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. 81-100.

Winichahul, Thongchai. Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.

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VI. Preliminary Reading and Discussion Schedule

Part I: Definitions Week Introduction to the Course 1 Jan. Northern Africa and the Middle East Map 15 Middle East MapWestern Asia Map Flags of Nation-States Heads of State and Government Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers

For the list of the 189 Member States of the United Nations with dates on which they joined the Organization, see:

http://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html

At the World Economic Forum, Davos, on 31 January 1999, UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan challenged world business leaders to "embrace and enact" the Global Compact, both in their individual corporate practices and by supporting appropriate public policies. These principles cover topics in human rights, labour and environment. For A Compact for the New Century, see:

http://www.unglobalcompact.org/gc/unweb.nsf/content/thenine.htm

What is a Nation?

Required Readings: Stuart Hall, "The Question of Cultural Identity," in Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, ed. Stuart Hall and et. al. (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 595-634. Week 2 Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation," in Nation and Narration, ed. Homi Jan. Bhabha (New York: Routledge, 1990), 8-22. 22 Optional Readings: The Nationalism Project: What is Nationalism?

Rachel Beatty, "Primordialism versus Constructivism"

Treanor, P. (1997) 'Structures of Nationalism' Sociological Research Online, vol. 2, no. 1. Week 3 Whose Imagined Communities? Jan. 29 Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1991), 1-46.

Partha Chatterjee, "Whose Imagined Community," in The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), 3-13.

Prasenjit Duara, "Historicizing National Identity, or Who Imagines What and When," in Becoming National: A Reader, ed. by Geoff Eley and Ronald Suny (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 150- 177.

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II. Narration

Historical Imagination

Hayden White, "Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination," in Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Week 1978), 101-120. 4 Feb. 5 Eric Hobsbawm, "Introduction: Inventing Traditions," in The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 1-14.

Benedict Anderson, "Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism," New Left Review 9 (MayÐJune 2001).

Contested Memories

Week Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Contested 5 Memories: Narrative Structures and Feb. Allegorical Meaning of Iran's Pre-Islamic 12 History," Iranian Studies 29:1-2 (1996), 149- 175.

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Language

Benedict Anderson, "Old Languages, New Models," in Imagined Communities, 67-82. Week Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Refashioning Iran: 6 Language and Culture During the Feb. Constitutional Revolution," Iranian Studies 23: 19 1-4 (1990), 77-101.

Modern Iranian Rulers Map of Iran

Colonialism

L. Carl Brown, "The Classical Eastern Question, 1774-1923," in International Politics and the Middle East: Old Rules, Dangerous Games Week (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 7 21-63. Feb. Map of Ottoman 26 Ottoman Empire Expansion Map of Ottoman On the Eve of the IWW Disintegration Europe in 1914 Europe in 1925 Middle East 1950 Israel in 1950

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IV. Body-Politic Matriotism

Week Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Going Public: 7 Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland in Iranian Feb. Nationalist Discourses" Strategires 13: 2 26 (2000), 175-200.

Afsaneh Najmabadi, "Zanha-yi Millat: Women or Wives of the Nation" Iranian Studies 26: 1-2 (1993), 51-71.

Week 8 Conference Preparation March 5 Week Spring Break! 9

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V. Democracy and Secularism Week 10 John O. Voll and John L. Esposito, "Islam's Democratic Mar. 19 Essence," The Middle East Quarterly 1:3 (September 1994).

Mehrzad Boroujerdi, "Can Islam be Secularized?"In Transition: Essays on Culture and Identity in the Middle Eastern Society, edited by M.R. Ghanoonparvar and Faridoun Farrokh (Laredo, TX: Texas A&M International University, 1994), pp. 55-64.

Asghar Ali Engineer,Ê "ISLAM AND SECULARISM," Secular Perspective (June 1-15, 1999)

Bernard Lewis, "Why Turkey Is the only Muslim Democracy," The Middle East Quarterly 1:1 (March 1994).

Niyazi Berkes. "Foundations of a Secular State", in The Development of Secularism in Turkey ( Montreal: McGill University Press, Montreal, 1964), 89-135.

Bernard Lewis. "The Impact of the West", from his The Emergence of Modern Turkey Oxford Univ Press, 1961, pp. 40-72.

Tansu ,iller: "Secularism is an Indispensable Principle for Turkey," The Middle East QWuarterly II:2 (Jun3 1995).

Türkkaya Ataöv, "Book Review: The Turkish Revolution / Muhammed Sadeq" PERCEPTIONS: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, III: 1(March-May 1998).

Süleyman Demi'rel, The Compatibility of Islam, Democracy and Secularism," PERCEPTIONS: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, II: 2 (ÊJune-August 1997).

Optional Reading:

N. Berkes, "Historical Background of Turkish Secularism," in Islam and the West, ed. Richard Frye (The Hague: Mouton & Co, 1956), 41-68.

Ayse Kadioglu, "The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism and the Construction of Official Identity," Middle Eastern Studies (1996), 177-193.

Mesut Yegen, "The Turkish State and the Exclusion of Kurdish Identity," Middle Eastern Studies (1996), 216-229.

Ziya Gökalp, "The Programme of Turkism: What is Turkism?," in Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization, 284-313. Selim Deringil, "The Invention of Tradition as Public Image in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808-1908," Comparative Study of Society and History (1993), 3-29.

Map of Turkey Map of Kurdish Areas Kursidh Nationalism

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VI. Refashioning Islam I. Required Readings Mohamad Tavakoli, Frontline Mysticism

ABDOLKARIM SOUROUSH: "REASON & FREEDOM IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT" AT THE CSID 2nd ANNUAl conference

Week Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Three Philosophical 12 Debates in Post-Revolutionary Iran. April 2 H. R. Jalaei pour, "The Emergence of a Modern Intellectual Climate and the Change in the Ideological Scene: 1988-1996

Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri, Let the occasional chalice break Abdolkarim Soroush and Islamic liberation theology.

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VII. Arabism and Zionism Week Theodor Herzl, "The Jewish State" (1896). 13 April 9 The Zionist Century

Sykes Picot Agreement The Balfour Declaration November 2, 1917

The Palestine Mandate

UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (Partition Plan) November 29, 1947

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

Declaration of Israel's Independence 1948

Steve Tamari, "Arab Nationalism"

"A short history of Arab nationalism" in Freedom Socialist (October 2001).

Martin Kramer, "Arab nationalism: Mistaken Identity," Daedalus (Summer 1993), 171-206.

Fouad Ajami, "Iraq and the Arabs' Future," Foreign Affairs (January/February 2003).

Gideon Levy and Robert Fisk, "The War in Iraq; the War in the West Bank Two struggles," Tikkun (04.04.2003.)

Map of Persian Gulf States Map of Saudi Arabia Map of Israel Israel-Golan

Optional Readings: Ilya Harik, "The Origins of the Arab State System," in The Foundations of the Arab State, ed. Ghassan Salamé (New York: Croom Helm, 1987), 19-46.

Abdullah al-Alayili, "What is Arab Nationalism," in Arab Nationalism: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), 120-127 [176-180]. Albert Hourani, "Arab Nationalism," in Arab Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 (Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1962), 260-323.

Beth Baron, "Mothers, Morality, and Nationalism," in The Origins of Arab Nationalism, 271-288.

Edmond Rabbath, "The Common Origin of the Arabs," in Arab Nationalism: An Anthology, ed. Sylvia Haim (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), 78-80.

Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, "The Excellence of the Arabs," in Arab Nationalism: An Anthology, ed. Sylvia Haim (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), 78-80.

History of the Palestine Problem

Richard Gottheil, "The Aims of Zionism," (1 November 1898).

Ottoman Rule on the Eve of the World War

Amos Oz, "A Monologue Behind the Sound and Fury."

Rashid Khalidi, "A Universal Jubilee? Palestinians 50 Years after 1948." Sykes Picot Balfour Resolution 181 Agreement Declaration UN The Palestine Information Israel-Golan Mandate System Map of The Intifada Israel Jerome Slater, "Can Zionism be Reconciled with Justice for the Palestinians?" Week 13 April 9 Nigel Parry, "A Personal Diary of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict."

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IX. International and Global Studies Conference Week 14 Mohamad Tavakoli, "Frontline Mysticism and April Militarized Spirituality." 16 Week 15 Conference Preparation April 23 International and Global Studies Conference Week 16 8:30 April Opening Remarks 30 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Student Presentations

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II. Retrospection Beyond the Nation-State

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