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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 4076 - The Modern Middle East

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Course Changes: Previoulsy 3760
Cross Listed: HIST 5076;
Description: The Ottoman Empire and its decline; the rise of Arab nationalism; Egypt to independence; the Arab world after WWI; the birth of Israel and the problem of Palestine; Nasserism and Iraqi nationalism; Birth of Saudi Arabia, Oil and the USA; Saddam and the rule of the Ba’th Party; Iran from the Safavids to the Islamic revolution.