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Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History gives college and secondary history instructors a deeper understand- ing of the past as well as the tools to help them teach it creatively and effec- tively. Named for Harvey Goldberg, a professor renowned for his history teach- ing at Oberlin College, Ohio State University, and the University of Wisconsin from the 1960s to the 1980s, the series reflects Goldberg’s commitment to help- ing students think critically about the past with the goal of creating a better future. For more information, please visit www.GoldbergSeries.org. Series Editors John Day Tully is a professor of history at Central Connecticut State Univer- sity and was the founding director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching at Ohio State University. He has coordinated many Teaching American History grants and has received the Connecticut State University System’s Board of Trustees Teaching Award. Matthew Masur is a professor of history at Saint Anselm College, where he has served as codirector of the Father Guerin Center for Teaching Excellence. He has also been a member of the Teaching Committee of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Brad Austin is a professor of history at Salem State University. He has served as chair of the American Historical Association’s Teaching Prize Committee and has worked with hundreds of secondary school teachers as the academic coordinator of many Teaching American History grants. Advisory Board Leslie Alexander Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon Kevin Boyle William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University Ross Dunn Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University Leon Fink UIC Distinguished Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago Kimberly Ibach Principal, Fort Washakie High School, Wyoming Alfred W. McCoy J.R.W. Smail Professor of History, Director, Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History, University of Wisconsin–Madison David J. Staley Associate Professor of History, Director, Center for the Humanities in Practice, Ohio State University Maggie Tran Chair of Social Studies, McLean High School, Virginia Sam Wineburg Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of History, Director, Stanford History Education Group, Stanford University Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East Edited by Omnia El Shakry The University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press 728 State Street, Suite 443 Madison, Wisconsin 53706 uwpress.wisc.edu Gray’s Inn House, 127 Clerkenwell Road London EC1R 5DB, United Kingdom eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2020 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. Except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews, no part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any format or by any means—digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—or conveyed via the Internet or a website without writ- ten permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. Rights inquiries should be directed to [email protected]. Printed in the United States of America This book may be available in a digital edition. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970– editor. Title: Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East / edited by Omnia El Shakry. Other titles: Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history. Description: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020] | Series: The Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020004270 | ISBN 9780299327606 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Middle East—History—Study and teaching. Classification: LCC DS61.8 .U53 2020 | DDC 956—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004270 For Nadeem, always Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Note on Transliteration xxi Introduction: The Middle East in the World 3 Omnia El Shakry Part One: The Middle East in the Classroom Why Can’t You Find the Middle East on a Map? 15 Michael Gasper Controversy in the Classroom: Lessons from the Modern Middle East 35 Omnia El Shakry Part Two: Understanding and Teaching Historical Content The Legacy of Islam in the Modern Middle East 49 Ovamir Anjum Colonialism, Empire, and Nationalist Movements 68 Sara Pursley Decolonization and the Reconfiguration of the Global Order 85 Muriam Haleh Davis vii Contents The History of Israel/Palestine 101 Sherene Seikaly Understanding Sectarianism as a Global Problem 117 Ussama Makdisi The Iranian Revolution: From Monarchy to the Islamic Republic 132 Naghmeh Sohrabi and Arielle Gordon Part Three: Understanding and Teaching the Contemporary Middle East US Foreign Policy in the Middle East 151 Nathan J. Citino America, Oil, and War in the Middle East 168 Toby Craig Jones Teaching the Global War on Terror 184 Darryl Li Arab Uprisings in the Modern Middle East 201 Asef Bayat Refugees in and from the Middle East: Teaching about Displacement in the Context of the International Refugee Regime 217 Rochelle Davis Part Four: Methods and Sources Literature as a Source for Teaching Modern Middle East History 243 Elliott Colla Cinema as a Source for Teaching Modern Middle East History 254 Kamran Rastegar Gender and Sexuality: Sources and Methods 271 Hanan Hammad viii Contents Nuancing the Narrative: Teaching the Jewish Modern Middle East 283 Alma Rachel Heckman The Armenian Genocide and the Politics of Knowledge 295 Christine Philliou Using Primary Source Documents to Teach Nationalization and Imperialism in the Modern Middle East 309 Kit Adam Wainer Keeping Current: Contemporary Engagement When Teaching Modern Middle East History 326 Ziad Abu-Rish Contributors 343 Index 349 ix
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