Syllabus/achievement requirements

[REQUIRED READING]

• Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. [pages 1-276].

[REQUIRED READING]

• Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. [pages 1-276].

[REQUIRED READING]:

• Sharabi, Hisham. ¡°Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society¡±. Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1987): 1-19. [Available via Fronter].
• Badran, Margot. ¡°Islam, Patriarchy, and Feminism in the Middle East¡±. Trends in History 4, no. 1 (1986): 49-71.
• Roald, Anne Sofie. ¡°¡®Benevolent Patriarchy¡¯: Palestinian Women between ¡®Ideal¡¯ and ¡®Reality¡¯¡±. Islam and Christian¨CMuslim Relations 24, no. 3 (2013): 333-347.
• Bahramitash, Roksana & Jennifer C. Olmsted. ¡°Choice and Constraint in paid work: Women from low-income households in Tehran¡±. Feminist Economics 20, no. 4 (2014): 260-280.

[REQUIRED READING]

• Beblawi, Hazem. ¡°The rentier state in the Arab world¡±. Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 4 (1987): 383-398. [Available via Fronter].
• Skocpol, Theda. ¡°Rentier state and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian Revolution¡±. Theory and society 11, no. 3 (1982): 265-283.
• Hertog, Steffen. ¡°The Sociology of the Gulf Rentier Systems: Societies of Intermediaries¡±. Comparative Studies in Society and History 52, no. 2 (2010): 282-318.
• Ross, Michael L. ¡°Does Oil Hinder Democracy?¡±, World Politics 53, no. 3 (2001): 325-361.

[SELECT THREE ARTICLES for individual reading and presentation for group discussions).

Explaining Authoritarianism in the Middle East

• Hinnebusch, Raymond. ¡°Authoritarian persistence, democratization theory and the Middle East: An overview and critique¡±, Democratization 13, no. 3 (2006): 373-395.
• Posusney, Marsha Pripstein. ¡°Enduring Authoritarianism: Middle East Lessons for Comparative Theory¡±. Comparative Politics 36, no. 2 (2004): 127-138.
• Bellin, Eva. ¡°The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective¡±. Comparative Politics 36, no. 2 (2004): 139-157.
• King, Stephen J. ¡°Sustaining Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa¡±. Political Science Quarterly 122, no. 3 (2007): 433-459.
• Niblock, Tim. ¡°Democratization: a theoretical and practical debate¡±. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 25, no. 2 (1998): 221-233.
• Schlumberger, Oliver. ¡°The Arab Middle East and the question of democratization: Some critical remarks¡±. Democratization 7, no. 4 (2000): 104-132.
• Guazzone, Laura and Daniela Pioppi. ¡°Globalisation and the Restructuring of State Power in the Arab World¡±. The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs 42, no. 4 (2007): 509-523.

Why the Arab Uprisings

5. Gause III, F. Gregory. ¡°Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring: The Myth of Authoritarian Stability¡±. Foreign Affairs 90, no. 4 (2011): 81-90.
5. Valbj?rn, Morten and Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Volpi. ¡°Revisiting Theories of Arab Politics in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings¡±. Mediterranean Politics 19, no. 1 (2014): 134-136.
5. Campante, Filipe R. and Davin Chor. ¡°Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring¡±. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 2 (2012): 167-187.
5. Kurzman, Charles. ¡°The Arab Spring Uncoiled¡±. Mobilization: An International Journal 17, no. 4 (2012): 377-390.
6. Pearlman, Wendy. ¡°Emotions and the Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings¡±, Perspectives on Politics 11, no. 2 (2013): 387-409.
5. Schwedler, Jillian. ¡°Islamists in Power? Inclusion, Moderation, and the Arab Uprisings¡±. Middle East Development Journal 5, no. 1 (2013): 1350006-1-1350006-18.
5. Owen, Roger. ¡°The Political Economy of Arab Presidents for Life ¡ª And After¡±. Middle East Development Journal 5, no. 1 (2013): 1350001-1-1350001-13.
5. Zubaida, Sami. ¡°The ¡®Arab Spring¡¯ in the historical perspectives of Middle East politics¡±. Economy and Society 41, no. 4) (2012): 568-579.
5. Hinnebusch, Raymond. ¡°Historical Sociology and the Arab Uprising¡±. Mediterranean Politics 19, no. 1 (2014): 137-140.
5. Hinnebusch, Raymond. ¡°Introduction: understanding the consequences of the Arab uprisings ¨C starting points and divergent trajectories¡±. Democratization 22, no. 2 (2015): 205-217.
5. Volpi, Fr¨¦d¨¦ric. ¡°Explaining (and re-explaining) political change in the Middle East during the Arab Spring: trajectories of democratization and of authoritarianism in the Maghreb¡±. Democratization 20, no. 6 (2013): 969-990.
5. Dahi, Omar S. ¡°Understanding the Political Economy of the Arab Revolts¡±. Middle East Report no. 259 (2011).
5. Leenders, Reinoud. ¡°Social Movement Theory and the Onset of the Popular Uprising in Syria¡±. Arab Studies Quarterly 35, no. 3 (2013): 273-289.
5. Tu?al, Cihan. ¡°¡®Resistance everywhere¡¯: The Gezi revolt in global perspective¡±. New Perspectives on Turkey 49 (2013): 157-172.

[REQUIRED READING]:

5. Said, Edward W. ¡°Orientalism Reconsidered¡±. Cultural Critique 1 (1985): 89-107.
5. Scott, Matthew. ¡°Edward Said¡¯s Orientalism¡±. Essays in Criticism 58, no. 1 (2008): 64-81.
5. Lewis, Bernard. ¡°The Question of Orientalism¡±. The New York Review of Books, June 24,1982.
5. Sadowski, Yahya. ¡°The New Orientalism and the Democracy Debate,¡± Middle East Report, no. 183 (1993): 14-21, 40.
6. Halliday, Fred. ¡°¡®Orientalism¡¯ and its critics¡±. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 20, no. 2 (1993): 145-163.
5. Burke III, Edmund. ¡°Orientalism and world history: Representing Middle Eastern nationalism and Islamism in the twentieth century¡±. Theory and Society 27, no. 4 (1998): 489-507.
5. Abu-Lughod, Lila. ¡°Review: Orientalism" and Middle East Feminist Studies¡±. Feminist Studies 27, no. 1 (2001): 101-113.
5. Bilgin, Pinar. ¡°Is the ¡®Orientalist¡¯ past the future of Middle East studies?¡± Third World Quarterly 25, no. 2 (2004): 423-433.
5. Eugene Rogan. ¡°No Debate: Middle East Studies in Europe¡±. Middle East Report, no. 205 (1997): 22-24.
5. Makdisi, Ussama. ¡°Ottoman Orientalism¡±. The American Historical Review 107, no. 3 (2002): 768-796.
5. Bill, James A. ¡°Comparative Middle East Politics: Still in Search of Theory¡±. PS: Political Science and Politics 27, no. 3 (1994): 518-519.
5. Haklai, Oded. ¡°Authoritarianism and Islamic Movements in the Middle East: Research and Theory-building in the Twenty-first Century¡±. International Studies Review 11 (2009): 27¨C45.

[REQUIRED READING]

5. Charrad, Mounira M. ¡°Central and Local Patrimonialism: State-Building in Kin-Based Societies¡±. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 636 (2011): 49-68.
5. Springborg, Robert. ¡°Patrimonialism and Policy Making in Egypt: Nasser and Sadat and the Tenure Policy for Reclaimed Lands¡±. Middle Eastern Studies 15, no. 1 (1979): 49-69.
5. Lust, Ellen. ¡°Competitive Clientelism in the Middle East¡±. Journal of Democracy 20, no. 3 (2009): 122-135.
5. Koehler, Kevin. ¡°Authoritarian Elections in Egypt: Formal Institutions and Informal Mechanisms of Rule¡±. Democratization 15, no. 5 (2008): 974-990.

[REQUIRED READING]:

5. Kurzman, Charles. ¡°Structural Opportunity and Perceived Opportunity in Social-Movement Theory: The Iranian Revolution of 1979¡±. American Sociological Review 61, no. 1 (1996): 153-170.
5. Clark, Janine. ¡°Social Movement Theory and Patron-Clientelism: Islamic Social Institutions and the Middle Class in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen¡±. Comparative Political Studies 37, no. 8 (2004): 941-968.
5. Wicktorowicz, Quintan. ¡°Framing Jihad: Intramovement Framing Contests and al-Qaeda¡¯s Struggle for Sacred Authority¡±. International Review of Social History 49 (2004): 159-177.
5. Tu?al, Cihan Z. ¡°The Appeal of Islamic Politics: Ritual and Dialogue in a Poor District of Turkey¡±. The Sociological Quarterly 47, no. 2 (2006): 245¨C273.

[REQUIRED READING]:

5. Allen, Roger. ¡°Lords of misrule: history and fiction in two Moroccan novels¡±. Middle Eastern Literatures 9, no. 2 (2006): 199-209.
5. Granara, William. ¡°Mythologising the Algerian war of independence: Tahir Wattar and the contemporary Algerian novel¡±. The Journal of North African Studies 4, no. 3 (1999): 1-14.
5. El Guabli, Brahim. ¡°Novelising the Arab revolutions: The Knights of Assassinated Dreams¡±. The Journal of North African Studies 20, no. 2 (2015): 143-158.
5. Guth, Stephan. ¡°Avatar and ?Az¨¡z¨©l ¨C Western and Middle Eastern patterns of individual revolt: An essay in the simultaneity of ruptures¡±, In La litt¨¦rature ¨¤ l'heure du ?Printemps Arabe?: analyse et perspectives / Literature and the ?Arab Spring? : analyses and perspectives, edited by Sobhi Boustani. Paris, 2015, forthcoming.

[REQUIRED READING]:

5. Ibrahim, Muhammad H. ¡°Standard and Prestige Language: A Problem in Arabic Sociolinguistics¡±. Anthropological Linguistics 28, no. 1 (1986): 115-126.
5. Uzum, Baburhan and Melike Uzum. ¡°The Historical and Linguistic Analysis of Turkish Politicians' Speech¡±. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 23, no. 4 (2010): 213-224.
5. Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein. ¡°Forms of Address in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Persian: A Sociolinguistic Analysis¡±. Language in Society 17, no. 4 (1988): 565-575.
5. Nahir, Moshe. ¡°Micro Language Planning and the Revival of Hebrew: A Schematic Framework¡±. Language in Society 27, no. 3 (1998): 335-357.

[REQUIRED READING]:

5. Lindholm, Charles. ¡°The New Middle Eastern Ethnography¡±. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1, no. 4 (1995): 805-820.
5. Henry Munson, Jr. ¡°Rethinking Gellner¡¯s Segmentary Analysis of Morocco¡¯s Ait ¡®Atta¡±. Man 28, no. 2 (1993): 267-280.
5. Ernest Gellner and Henry Munson, Jr. ¡°Segmentation: Reality or Myth?¡±. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1, no. 4 (1995): 821-832.
5. Cherstich, Igor. ¡°When Tribesmen do not act Tribal: Libyan Tribalism as Ideology (not as Schizophrenia)¡±. Middle East Critique 23, no. 4 (2014): 405-421.
6. Fredrik Barth. ¡°Father¡¯s Brother¡¯s Daughter Marriage in Kurdistan¡±. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 10, no. 2 (1954): 164-171.