Department of History University of Michigan
History 698 Winter, 2012
SYLLABUS
Course Title: Studies Course: Background to the Arab Spring
Office Hours: Tues. 4-7
Instructor: Juan Cole
Telephone: 763-1599; e-mail: jrcole@umich.edu
Books assigned (available at Ulrich's, Barnes and Noble)
Galal Amin. Egypt in the Era of Hosni Mubarak: 1981-2011 (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2011).
Jean-Pierre Filiu, The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Beatrice Hibou, The Force of Obedience (New York: Polity, 2011).
Laurence Louer. Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008). (Also Mirlyn Online Resource).
Lisa Wedeen, Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Course Topics
Jan. 17 Orientation
Jan. 24 Tunisia
Hibou, Force of Obedience (first half)
Jan. 31 Free study day
Feb. 7 Tunisia
Hibou, Force of Obedience (second half)
Feb. 14 Egypt
Amin, Egypt in the Era of Hosni Mubarak (whole book)
Feb. 21 Egypt and Revolution
Yoram Meital, "The Struggle over Political Order in Egypt: The 2005 Elections," The Middle East Journal 60. 2 (Spring 2006): 257-279. (Proquest)
Manar Shorbagy, "Understanding Kefaya: The New Politics in Egypt," Arab Studies Quarterly 29. 1 (Winter 2007): 39-60. (Proquest)
Lawrence Pintak, "Border Guards of the 'Imagined Watan': Arab Journalists and the New Arab Consciousness," The Middle East Journal 63. 2 (Spring 2009): 191-212. (Proquest)
Sunny Daly, "Young Women as Activists in Contemporary Egypt: Anxiety, Leadership, and the Next Generation," Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 6. 2 (Spring 2010): 59-85,133. (Proquest)
Ann Lesch, "Egypt's Spring: Causes of the Revolution," Middle East Policy 18. 3 (Fall 2011): 35-48. (Proquest)
Walid El Hamamsy, "BB = BlackBerry or Big Brother: Digital media and the Egyptian revolution," Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47:4:(2011):454-466. (Ctools)
Amal Kandeel, "Egypt at a Crossroads," Middle East Policy 18. 2 (Summer 2011): 37-45.
FIRST PRECIS DUE FEB. 21
Mar. 6 Yemen
Wedeen, Peripheral Visions, first half
Mar. 13 Free study day.
Mar. 20 Yemen
Wedeen, Peripheral Visions, second half
Fattah, Khaled. "Yemen: A Social Intifada in a Republic of Sheikhs," Middle East Policy 18. 3 (Fall 2011): 79-85 (Proquest)
Mar. 27 Syria
Stacher, Joshua, "Reinterpreting Authoritarian Power: Syria's Hereditary Succession," The Middle East Journal 65. 2 (Spring 2011): 197-212 (Proquest)
Sally K. Gallagher, "Agency, Resources, and Identity: Lower-Income Women's Experiences in Damascus," Gender and Society, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 227-249 (JSTOR)
Weismann, Itzchak, "Democratic Fundamentalism? The Practice and Discourse of the Muslim Brothers Movement in Syria," The Muslim World 100. 1 (Jan 2010): 1-16. (Proquest)
Pierret, Thomas; Selvik, Kjetil, "Limits of 'Authoritarian Upgrading' in Syria: Private Welfare, Islamic Charities, and the Rise of the Zayd Movement," International Journal of Middle East Studies 41. 4 (Nov 2009): 595-614. (Proquest)
Buckner, Elizabeth S and Saba, Khuloud, "Syria's next generation: youth un/employment, education, and exclusion," Education, Business and Society (Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues) 3. 2 (2010): 86-98. (Proquest)
Marshall, Shana, "Syria and the Financial Crisis: Prospects for Reform?" Middle East Policy 16. 2 (Summer 2009): 106-115. (Proquest)
Ulutas, Ufuk, "The Syrian Opposition in the Making: Capabilities and Limits," Insight Turkey 13. 3 (2011): 87-105 (Proquest)
SECOND PRECIS DUE MARCH 27
Apr. 3 Bahrain
J.E. Peterson, "Bahrain: Reform -- Promise and Reality," In Joshua Teitelbaum, Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf (New York, Columbia University Press, 2009).
Laurence Louer, Transnational Shia Politics : Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf (New York, Columbia University Press, 2008). Mirlyn Online Resource, eReader.
Apr. 10 Libya
Jacques Roumani, "From Republic to Jamahiriya: Libya's Search for Political Community," Middle East Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 151-168 (JSTOR)
Dirk Vandewalle, "Qadhafi's "Perestroika": Economic and Political Liberalization in Libya," Middle East Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Spring, 1991), pp. 216-231 (JSTOR)
Yehudit Ronen, "Libya's Rising Star: Saif al-Islam and Succession," Middle East Policy12. 3 (Fall 2005): 136-144. (JSTOR)
Lisa Anderson, "Rogue Libya's Long Road," Middle East Report, No. 241 (Winter, 2006), pp. 42-47 (JSTOR)
Ronald John, "Libya and the United States: A Faustian Pact?" Middle East Policy 15. 1 (Spring 2008): 133-148.
Apr. 17 Summing Up
Filiu, The Arab Revolutions