Arab Cultures: Literature, Politics, History

CULANTH 209

Explore different facets of modern and contemporary Arab cultures; memoirs, novels, prison notebooks, films, comic books, theoretical tracts, music, psychiatric case-studies, histories, and ethnographies; consider how authors depict key historical transformations taking place in the Arab world; different angles through which political questions are tackled; the negotiation between self and other.
Curriculum Codes
  • CCI
  • ALP
  • CZ
Cross-Listed As
  • AMES 210
  • LIT 251
Typically Offered
Occasionally