Exploring term Fall 2023 Change

    HSTR277B

    History of the Middle East since World War II

    Studies the major political processes that have shaped the modern Middle East (the Arab East, plus Iran, Israel, Turkey) since 1945. Themes include: the struggles for independence and the processes of nation-building; the Cold War interventions of foreign powers; the ideologies of pan-Arabism and Islamism; the regional ramifications of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Iranian revolution; America's troubled moment in the Middle East; and, the tumultuous events of the 2011 Arab Spring.

    Lecture: 3h
    Lab: 0h
    Tutorial: 0h
    Credits: 1.5