Summer Session 2009
Sunday-Wednesday, August 2–5, 2009
Suggested Readings
No preparation is required for this summer session. However, faculty members have suggested that participants may find the following helpful in thinking about topics that will be covered:
Professor Binnur Ozkececi-Taner recommends:
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People’s War by Beverly Milton-Edwards (Routledge, 2008)
Professor Khaldoun Samman recommends:
The Unmaking Of The Middle East: A History Of Western Disorder In Arab Lands by Jeremy Salt (University of California Press, 2008)
Women And Gender In Islam: Historical Roots of A Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed (Yale University Press, 1993), especially section 3
The film Encounter Point by Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha (2007)
Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested World Cities by Khaldoun Samman (Paradigm Publishers, 2007), chapters 2 and 4
Professor Wessam El-Meligi recommends:
(a) Middle Eastern voices in the Middle East
Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor, 1996), an allegory of the spiritual evolution of mankind
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al Aswani (Harper Perennial, 2006), a contemporary naturalistic critique of Arab societies
(b) Middle Eastern voices outside the Arab world
The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini (Riverhead, 2003), a childhood journey of redemption from Afghanistan to America
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon, 2004), an autobiography of a Muslim woman in a changing society
Professor Joëlle Vitiello recommends:
Return to Beirut by Andrée Chedid (Serpent's Tail, 1990)
West Beirut, film by Ziad Doueiri (1998, English subtitles), available in VHS and DVD and for online viewing at video.google.com