{"id":27752,"date":"2026-05-25T09:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?post_type=cu_description&#038;p=27752"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:04:48","slug":"history-of-the-modern-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"cu_description","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/description\/history-of-the-modern-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Modern Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">HIST 2915A: History of the Modern Middle East<br>Winter 2027<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> Hussam R. Ahmed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course equips students with the tools necessary to think, read and write critically about the modern Middle East. We will be dealing with the political, social and cultural history of the region following the end of the First World War to the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course starts with a survey of the Ottoman Empire that dominated much of the region from the 16<sup>th<\/sup> Century. We then have a close look at the shifting balance of power with Europe and the rise of European imperialism in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Next, we have a close look at how the First World War drew the map of the region as we study the formation of new states and their development in the interwar period. We then follow a number of key issues that have dominated 20<sup>th<\/sup>-century Middle Eastern history. Among them are, Zionism, Israel and the Palestinian struggle for nationhood; Nasserism and Pan-Arabism; the Lebanese civil war, the Iranian Revolution and the rise of political Islam; the politics of oil and the Gulf War. We end the course with a look at the unprecedented wave of revolutionary activity that engulfed the region in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organization:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This class will meet in person. Our time will be split between lectures and in-class discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_description_type":[],"class_list":["post-27752","cu_description","type-cu_description","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/27752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_description"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/27752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27753,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/27752\/revisions\/27753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_description_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description_type?post=27752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}