{"id":26769,"date":"2025-05-12T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=26769"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:17:05","slug":"hist-3517a-history-of-modern-egypt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/hist-3517a-history-of-modern-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 3517A: History of Modern Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        HIST 3517A: History of Modern Egypt\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HIST 3517A: History of Modern Egypt<br>Winter 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu-people\/hussam-ahmed\/\">Hussam Ahmed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of providing a chronological survey of modern Egypt, this class will focus on a series of moments in modern Egyptian history, exemplified in the lives of particular Egyptians. The figures we will look at are all writers of one sort or another, from \u2018Abd al-Rahman Jabarti, a late 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century scholar and historian, to Ahdaf Soueif, a 21<sup>st<\/sup>-century novelist and political commentator.<strong> <\/strong>Class readings will comprise works by these writers, and class lectures will set their lives, writings and ideas in historical context. In this way, students will learn about French and British colonialism in Egypt, Egyptian responses to the challenge of European colonial thought and practices, Islamic reformism in early 20<sup>th-<\/sup>century Egypt, early Egyptian feminism, changes in Egyptian education, the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam, the Nasserist Revolution, the experience of the Coptic community in Egyptian society, the Sadat era and the \u201copen door\u201d policy, the \u201cTahrir Square\u201d Revolution of February 2011 and its aftermath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organization:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This class will meet in person. The class will be organized into two-hour lectures and weekly discussion groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST 3517A: History of Modern EgyptWinter 2026 Instructor: Hussam Ahmed Course Description:&nbsp; Instead of providing a chronological survey of modern Egypt, this class will focus on a series of moments in modern Egyptian history, exemplified in the lives of particular Egyptians. 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