Syllabus
Course Reserves
Course Slides
Office Hourse Sign-Up
FMOOWMP

Readings 

Eickelman,  The Middle East
Said, Orientalism
Coon: Caravan
Orwell, Marrakech
The Onion: My Moroccan Neighbors
Eisenstadt, Tribal Engagement

Gilsenan, An Anthropologist's Introduction
Deeb and Winegar
Asad, Anthropology of Islam
Shenoda, Public Christianity
Hallowed Ground: National and Otherwise
Maddy-Weitzman, Berbers and Israel
Combs-Shilling: Segmentary Debate

Music /Recitation
El Ghiwane (Morocco)
Oum Kulthum (Egypt)
Idir (Algeria)
Quranic Recitation: Morocco
Quranic Recitaion: Indonesia


 

Post/Facilitator Sign-Up
Reading  Posts
Presentation Slides
Mass Media Critical Commentary
Take Home Essay Exam

Resources

Research Resources
The Comparative Essay
Arab Media & Society
MERIP

 Films / Videos / Audio

The Rabbi's Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin)
Reel Bad Arabs
Capernaum
The Swimmers
A Little for My Heart and a Little for My God
The Idea of Islam Today: Asad
Edward Said on Orientalism
El Moulid
Mystic River
Eight Mile 1
Eight Mile 2
Quranic Recitation: Morocco
Quranic Recitaion: Indonesia

 Palestian/Isaeli Solidarity Organizations

Combatants for  Peace
The Parents Circle
Hand in Hand
Standing Together
Women Wage Peace