CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF ARABIC COUNTRIES
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
LAURA BOTTINI
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to trace the
complex history of the Arab world from the nineteenth century up to the
contemporary age.
According to the Dublin
descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and understanding skills
about the
political and social processes as well as the main conflicts that have
characterized the Arab from the nineteenth century up to the contemporary age;
2) ability to apply knowledge and
understanding to
place properly the current crises in the complex picture of contemporary
Islamic world and in the international arena;
3) ability to integrate knowledge and to
to think, with
critical tools, over the different narratives of these countries;
4) ability to communicate one's
knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist
interlocutors;
5) ability to carry out research autonomously.
Course Structure
The main method of teaching is “lecture-based”
learning. During the course, primary sources, related to the topics, will also
be read and discussed.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
The course includes two modules.
After the main stages of the history of the Arab world from the French
invasion of Egypt (1798) to the first half of the twentieth century, in the
first module space will be given to the definition of the different types of
European imperialism, to the birth of the political ideologies and reformisms.
In the
second module the affirmation of the nation-states and nationalism in its
diverse declinations will be considered. Furthermore, attention will be given
to the diverse forms of power in the Arab world and the main conflicts in the
area that emerged over the course of the twentieth century.Textbook Information
1.
M. Campanini, Storia del Medio Oriente, 1798-2006,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, p. 258 (include cronologia, letture consigliate,
indice).
2.
M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009, p. 202. (include indice).
3.
A. Pellitteri, Introduzione allo studio della storia contemporanea
del Mondo arabo, Roma-Bari, Editori Laterza, 2008, p. 208 (include
indice).
4.
L. Kamel; L. Trombetta, Sciismo
e potere, il peso della storia tra Iran, Libano e Iraq, Roma,
Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2021, p. 51-140.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
