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The Middle East Survey Course: Challenges and Opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

Ziad Abu-Rish
Ziad Abu-Rish*
Affiliation:
Ohio University
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The production and dissemination of knowledge on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has always had a particularly complex relationship vis-à-vis research funding, faculty hiring priorities, course scheduling schemas, and course enrollment numbers. In this essay, I hope to share some observations—that I have experienced firsthand and discussed with a number of colleagues—on teaching an introductory survey course on the history of the modern MENA region. Such reflections are rooted in my own experience of teaching at a public university with no current major research or teaching commitments to the MENA region. While these observations are not unique to the context within which I teach, they might be otherwise inflected in different contexts.

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Round Table
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 27 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. 2017 

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