Recommended Readings & Audio Visual Titles

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, c. 1992.

Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

Baron, Beth. The Women’s Awakening in Egypt, Culture, Society and the Press. New Haven, 1994.

Cleveland, William. A History of the Modern Middle East. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century – From Triumph to Despair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Gelvin, James. The Modern Middle East: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Heydemann, Steven. War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East. Berkeley, LA, London: University of California Press, 2000. Link to resource  (accessed May 4, 2010).

Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. London: Faber and Faber, 1991.

Landau, Jacob M. The Politics of Pan-Islam: Ideology and Organization. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
 
Makdisi, Ussama. The Culture of Sectarianism. Berkeley, LA, London: University of California Press, 2000. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010).

Mitchell, Richard P. The Society of the Muslim Brothers. New York, 1993.

Thompson, Elizabeth. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. New York, 2000.

Walther, Wiebke. Women in Islam. Princeton, NJ: M. Wiener Pub., 1993.

FILMS & VIDEOS:

Access Islam: Videos. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010).

“Class of 2006: First Moroccan Women to be trained as religious leaders.”  Wide Angle. PBS. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010). Program tells story of 50 women in Morocco who have undergone traditional religious training, demonstrates complexities found at intersection of religious tradition and modern life. 

“Future of Lebanon: Political change in the oldest democracy in the Middle East.”  Wide Angle. PBS. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010). Program follows elections in Lebanon, 2005, highlights political complexities for a country where demands of religious and nationalist identity compete.

SOUND FILES:

Khouri, Rami. “Shifting Attitudes on Arab Identity.” Daily Star. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010).  

“Lord’s Prayer in Syriac, The.” Literary Syriac Sub-section. Wikipedia. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010).

Online Resources

Orit Bashkin

Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago

MAPS:

Ethnolinguistic Map of Iran. University of Texas. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010).

Iraq – Distribution of Religious and Ethnic Groups. University of Texas. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010).

Lebanon – Distribution of Religious Groups. University of Texas. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010).