HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Islamic & Middle East Stud.
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Nicole Khayat
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 3-4; Wednesday 4-5
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Nicole Khayat
Course/Module description:
The Arab East during the 19th century was a period of highly accelerated literary production in Arabic, known as the nahda. This course will explore litterateurs and their writings on a variety of cultural and intellectual topics such as the theatre, historical writing, archaeology, photography and medicine.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will be obtain tools to critically examine historical processes.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
The Arabic press
Travelogues
Translation, authorship and copyright
Literature
Historiography and Egyptology
The theatre
Photography
Medicine
Journalism
History of the book
Required Reading:
Thomas Philipp, " Bilād al-Šām in the Modern Period: Integration into the Ottoman Empire and New Relations with Europe," Arabica 51: 4 (2004), 401 – 418.
Dror Ze'evi, "Back to Napoleon? Thoughts on the Beginning of the Modern Era in the Middle East," Mediterranean Historical Review 19: 1 (2004), 73-94.
עמי איילון, מהפכת הדפוס הערבי, הוצאת מגנס, 2018, 31-51, 208-238.
Elizabeth Eva Johnston, " Classification and Critique of Sciences in al-Ṭahṭāwı̄’s
Takhlı̄ṣ (1834)," Middle Eastern Literatures 16: 3(2013), 282–299.
Ottoman History Podcast: Rana Issa “The Bible and Modern Standard Arabic”:
https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/arabic-bibleland
Butrus Abu-Manneh, “The Christians Between Ottomanism and Syrian Nationalism: The Ideas of Butrus Al-Bustani,” IJMES 11: 3(1980), 287-304.
Donald M. Reid, "Indigenous Egyptology: The Decolonization of a Profession?," Journal of the American Oriental Society 105:2(1985), 233-246.
Adam Mestyan, "Arabic Theater in early Khedivial Culture, 1868–72: James Sanua Revisited," Int. J. Middle East Stud. 46 (2014), 117–137.
Sheehi, Stephen. The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910. 2016, chapter 5, pp. 103-120.
Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age: 1798-1939, Cambridge: Univ. Press, 2013.
This is a partial list and subject to changes
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 50 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 30 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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