How can we understand protest, especially the complexity of gender, generation, class, and multiple national identifications? How can stories by Muslim women teach us about protest and resistance?
In this course in Morocco and Spain, we will study Moroccan women writers, focusing course packet and on Scheherazade Goes West, The Secret Son, and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits.
Live blogs/Research Sites/beyond wiki
- Middle East at Al Jazeera
- Middle East protests at BBC News
- Arab and Middle East protests live blog at The Guardian
- Middle East Protests at The Lede blog at The New York Times
- A (Working) Academic Arab Spring Reading List collected peer-reviewed academic articles on the impact of social media on the Arab Spring
- Unrest in the Arab World collected news and commentary at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Issue Guide: Arab World Protests, Council on Foreign Relations
- Unrest in the Arab World collected map, news and commentary at CNN
- Arab and Middle East unrest collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- "Interview with Tariq Ramadan: 'We Need to Get a Better Sense of the Trends within Islamism'". Qantara.de. 2 February 2011.
- Sadek J. Al Azm, "The Arab Spring: Why Exactly at this Time?" Reason Papers 33 (Fall 2011)
- Tracking the wave of protests with statistics, RevolutionTrends.org
- Arab uprisings: 10 key moments from BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowden (10 December 2012)
New Media Sites:
Hajj to Mecca
Live camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArVmnth5jB4
Hajj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7q_LcqbvKI
Call to prayer in Istanbul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9jGeJIK_M
Andalusia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmtp-yM8L4A
Crash course in Islam & 5 pillars, Qur’an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpcbfxtdoI8
Crash course in Islam & 5 pillars, Qur’an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka8csjsmX6I
1300 years – rise of Islam (virtual map)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VdJAgLRoE
Andalusia – Golden Age of Iberia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGhr0eZGdio
Hagia Sophia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRPp3jzv1Tw
Hagia Sophia (rick steves)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng--WLT0Xjc
Blue Mosque (rick steves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocyyxHkCvm8
Akbar the Great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBB96mj2X38
Ottomans (map) rise and fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEFO2T3M3Q
Ibn Battuta info and website
https://school.bighistoryproject.com/media/khan/articles/U8_Battuta_2014_740L.pdf
Ibn Battuta film part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d5qcVP7ig
Ibn Battuta film part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdOBbopxVME
Ibn Battuta film part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdOBbopxVME
Ibn Battuta film - different