STORIA DEI PAESI DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA E DEL MEDIO ORIENTE
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year - Curriculum Tema+ European Territories: Heritage and developmentCredit Value: 12
Scientific field: SPS/13 - African history and institutions
Taught classes: 72 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Course Structure
The course is based on lectures and interactive teaching. In order to facilitate participation, students will be invited to discuss in class relevant excerpts of the Arab-Muslim political thought. Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
The course begins with Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt (1798) and the Ottoman reform programmes undertaken as a response to the crisis. European imperialism and emergent nationalisms will be studied along with the nation-States system created in the aftermath of WWI. Then the policies of independent regimes in the context of the Cold War will be examined in the light of the pan-Arab and Socialist cycle, the laissez-faire phase and the rise of Islamism.
Textbook Information
M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente. Una storia dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012.
M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente. Una storia dal 1991 a oggi, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012, capp. 1-2-3.