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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Political Science
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Wael Abu-'Uksa
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesday, 12:10-13:10
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Wael Abu-Uksa
Course/Module description:
The course will focus on the political, cultural, and social history of Egypt between the revolutions of 1919 and 2011. It aims to examine the historical events that shaped the modern history of Egypt during this period.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The course will enable students to understand and analyze central events in the cultural and political history of Egypt.
Attendance requirements(%):
90
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lecture
Course/Module Content:
Selected subjects:
Tradition, law and theories of governance in Egypt
Regional order, colonialism and the quest for independence
Reformist Islam
Discourse of rights
Formal politics until 1938
Civil society and liberal politics
Pan-Arabism and Socialism
Political and intellectual history of the 1967
Democratisation and Islamization
Defining Islam: enlightened and conservative
Social relations, feminism and minorities
The 2011 events (Arab spring) and the failure of democracy
Culture and music in the age of revolution
Military, Society and state after 2011
Required Reading:
selected bibliography:
Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M. Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Botman, Selma. Egypt from Independence to Revolution, 1919-1952. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 1991.
Deeb, Marius. Party Politics in Egypt: The Wafd and Its Rivals, 1919-1939. London: Ithaca Press, 1979.
Di-Capua, Yoav. “Arab Existentialism: An Invisible Chapter in the Intellectual History of Decolonization.” The American Historical Review 117, no. 4 (October 1, 2012): 1061–91.
Geges, Fawaz A., ed. The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Gershoni, Israel. “Egyptian Liberalism in an Age of ‘Crisis of Orientation’: Al-Risala’s Reaction to Fascism and Nazism, 1933-39.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, no. 4 (November 1999): 551–76.
Ginat, Rami. A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc, 2011.
Goldschmidt, Arthur, ed. Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2005.
Gordon, Joel. Nasser’s Blessed Movement: Egypt’s Free Officers and the July Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Griffel, Frank. “What Do We Mean By ‘Salafī’? Connecting Muḥammad ʿAbduh with Egypt’s Nūr Party in Islam’s Contemporary Intellectual History.” Die Welt Des Islams 55 (2015): 186–220.
Husayn, Taha. The Future of Culture in Egypt. Washington: American Council of Learned Societies, 1954.
Maghraoui, Abdeslam. Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
Mohi El-Din, Khalid. Memories of a Revolution: Egypt 1952. Cairo: The American University of Cairo, 1995.
Rutherford, Bruce K. Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World. Princeton University Press, 2013.
Sassoon, Joseph. Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Gunning, Jeroen, and Ilan Zvi Baron. Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 59-96.
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 10 %
presentation
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