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

HIST 5076 - Modern Middle East


Credit Hours 3
Description: This course addresses 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; and Iran from the Safavids to the Islamic revolution.