HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: Islamic & Middle East Stud.

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Arnon Degani

Coordinator Email: arnondeg@gmail.com

Coordinator Office Hours: Per appointment

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Arnon Degani

Course/Module description:
From Morocco to Iraq, all Arab Middle Eastern countries have been significantly shaped by imperial forces. In this course, we will learn about the takeover of European empires over the Middle East and the culture apparatuses that enabled and justified colonial conquests. The course will focus on a few case studies and will highlight the characteristics common and unique to each colonial regime. We will also discuss the different ways in which indigenous populations opposed colonial regimes and how this struggle bolstered or deteriorated their social cohesion and the stature of their leadership. We will also look at the colonial heritage of the nation-states established following the withdrawal of European empires and delve into the questions posed by "post-colonial" critique. Finally, we will cautiously ask whether Zionism can be classified as a colonialist movement.

Course/Module aims:
1. Proficiency in the key narratives of the European takeover of the Arab Middle East, and Arab liberation from colonialism.
2. Familiarity with the central features of modern European colonialism.
3. Exploring some of the sophisticated colonial control mechanisms.
4. Identifying the colonial heritage in today’s Middle East.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

Attendance requirements(%):

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:

Course/Module Content:
Theoretical foundations
Case studies - conquest
Mechanisms of domination and exploitation
National, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities under colonialism
Case studies - liberation
The post-colonial era
Zionism and colonialism

Required Reading:
List will update in the following weeks:

יסודות:
Balandier, Georges. The Sociology of Black Africa : Social Dynamics in Central Africa. London: Deutsch, 1970.

סעיד, אדוארד. אוריינטליזם. תל אביב: עם עובד, 1993.
ממי, אלברט. דיוקן הכובש ולפני כן, דיוקן הנכבש. ירושלים: כרמל, 2005.
Cooper, Frederick. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Wolfe, Patrick. “Land, Labor, and Difference: Elementary Structures of Race.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 3 (2001): 866–905.

מקרי בוחן:
זמיר, מאיר. כינונה של לבנון המודרנית. ת"א: מערכות, 1993.
Prochaska, David. Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bône, 1870-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Vatikiotis, P J. The History of Modern Egypt : From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak. 4th ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Stora, Benjamin. Pennell, C R. Morocco since 1830: A History. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Pennell, C R. Algeria, 1830-2000 : A Short History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

שליטה וניצול:
Tibawi, A L. “Religion and Educational Administration in Palestine of the British Mandate.” Die Welt Des Islams 3, no. 1 (1953): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.2307/1569033.
Segalla, Spencer David. “French Colonial Education and Elite Moroccan Muslim Resistance from the Treaty of Fes to the Berber Dahir.” Journal of North African Studies. Vol. 11, N. 1, 2006, 85-106 .
Alon, Yoav. The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
Beinin, Joel, and Zachary Lockman. Workers on the Nile : Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Prochaska, David. Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bône, 1870-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

הפרד ומשול וזהויות אחרות:
Lazreg, Marnia. "The Reproduction of Colonial Ideology: The Case of the Kabyle Berbers." Arab Studies Quarterly 5, no. 4 (1983): 380-95.
שרביט, יוסף. יהודי אלג'יריה בעידן הצרפתי 1962-1830. תל-אביב: משרד הבטחון, 2010.
Sluglett, Peter. Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country, 1914-1932. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Neep, Daniel. Occupying Syria Under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Clancy Smith, Julia. “A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa.” In Margaret Lee Meriwether (ed), A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East, New York: Routledge, 1999. 25-62.

מאבק לשחרור:
Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Delhi: Oxford, 1983.
Manela, Erez. “The Wilsonian Moment and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism: The Case of Egypt.” Diplomacy & Statecraft 12, no. 4 (December 1, 2001): 99–122.
פנון, פרנץ, רוזן, אורית ושוחט, אלה. מקוללים עלי אדמות. תל אביב: בבל, 2006.
Akkad, Mustafa (Dir). Lion of the Desert. Digital Entertainment, 2000. DVD.
Shepard, Todd. The invention of decolonization: the Algerian War and the remaking of France. Cornell University Press, 2008.
Norris, Jacob. "Repression and Rebellion: Britain's Response to the Arab Revolt in Palestine of 1936–39." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 36, no. 1 (2008): 25-45.

דגל מורד, דגל מורם:
McMurray, David A., ed. In and out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown. U of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Bashkin, Orit. "Hybrid Nationalisms: Waṭanī and Qawmī Visions in Iraq under ʿAbd al-Karim Qasim, 1958–61." International Journal of Middle East Studies 43, no. 2 (2011): 293-312.
Gordon, Joel. Nasser: Hero of the Arab nation. Oneworld Publications, 2012.
Eldridge, Claire. "Blurring the boundaries between perpetrators and victims: Pied-noir memories and the Harki community." Memory Studies 3, no. 2 (2010): 123-136.

מה איתנו?
Shafir, Gershon. Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
ע’אנם, הונידה. "לא ממש אפרטהייד: על הדינמיקה בין קולוניאליזם התיישבותי לכיבוש צבאי." המרחב הציבורי (2012), 112-95.
Piterberg, Gabriel. The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. London; New York: Verso, 2008.
Degani, Arnon Y. “From Republic to Empire: Israel and the Palestinians 1948-2016.” In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism, edited by Lorenzo Veracini and Edward Cavanagh, 353–67. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.

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Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 40 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 50 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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