STORIA DEI PAESI DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA E DEL MEDIO ORIENTE

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year - Curriculum Tema+ European Territories: Heritage and development
Teaching Staff: Agata Daniela Melfa
Credit Value: 12
Scientific field: SPS/13 - African history and institutions
Taught classes: 72 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Course Structure

The course is based on lectures and interactive teaching. In order to facilitate participation, students will be invited to discuss in class relevant excerpts of the Arab-Muslim political thought. Attendance is not compulsory.


Detailed Course Content

The course begins with Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt (1798) and the Ottoman reform programmes undertaken as a response to the crisis. European imperialism and emergent nationalisms will be studied along with the nation-States system created in the aftermath of WWI. Then the policies of independent regimes in the context of the Cold War will be examined in the light of the pan-Arab and Socialist cycle, the laissez-faire phase and the rise of Islamism.


Textbook Information

M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente. Una storia dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012.

M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente. Una storia dal 1991 a oggi, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012, capp. 1-2-3.