COURSE SCHEDULE:

Week 1:  January 10-12: Introduction and Class Content. Where is the Muslim World?

Read:  Fluehr-Lobban, Chapter 1.

Week 2:  January 17-19:  Histories of the Muslim World: Imperialisms, Colonialisms, and Post-colonialisms

Film: Middle East Part One: 1900-1956 From the End of the Ottoman Empire to the Suez Crisis; Part Two: 1956-1991 From the Suez Crisis to the Gulf War.

Week 3:  January 24-26: The Culture of Islam

 Read: Fluehr-Lobban, Chapters 2 and 3.

Start reading Esposito’s What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam.

Week 4: January 31-February 2:  The Culture of Islam

Discussion of Esposito’s What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam.

Week 5:  February 7-9:  The Culture of Islam

Read: Fluehr-Lobban, Chapters 4 and 5.

Start reading Said’s Covering Islam.

Weeks 6&7:  February 14-23:  Writing on and Covering Muslim Societies:

Discussion of Said’s Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World.

Film: Edward Said on Orientalism.

MIDTERM on February 23.

Weeks 8 and 9 : February 28-March 2, March 7-9:  The Culture of Islam

Read: Fluehr-Lobban, Chapters, 6 and 7.

Film: Bab El-Oued City

Start reading Esposito’s Unholy War.

Week 10: March 13-17, Spring Break.

Weeks 11 and 12:  March 21-30: The Politics of Muslim Protest and Global Linkages    

Discussion of Unholy War.

Christian Science Monitor Special Projects Link: http://www.csmonitor.com/world/index.html

Film: Edward Said on Clash of Civilizations OR Clash of Ignorance!

Start reading Khalidi’s Resurrecting Empire

Week 13:  April 4-6, The United States and the Middle East

Discussion of Khalidi’s Resurrecting Empire.

Film: Born Again Muslims (Beyond the Veil Series)

Weeks 14 and 15:  April 11-20: Information and Communication Technologies and “ Mobile ” Islam

Read: Eickelman and Anderson : Chapters 1, 3, and 4. On Reserve.

Read: Douglas and Douglas: "The mosque and the satellite": Media and adolescence in a Moroccan town: http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/mosque.html

Slide Presentation: The Bazaars of Information and Communication Technologies in the Madinas of Rabat and Casablanca , Morocco .

Film: Umm Kalthum or the Voice of Egypt !

Recommended: http://www.georgetown.edu/research/arabtech/confer1.htm

Week 16: April 25-27:  Student Presentations and fieldtrip to the Islamic Center of Ames .

Week 17: May 1-5: Finals Week.