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Imagining the Modern Middle East

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/8/26 - 12/11/26
TuTh 9:30a.m. – 10:45a.m.		 McCormack M01-0415 3 $2138 (guest students)
Date
9/8/26 - 12/11/26
Time
TuTh 9:30a.m. – 10:45a.m.
Location
McCormack M01-0415
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2138 (guest students)

Description

This course constitutes an interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary novels, picture books, graphic novels, and films that represent Middle Eastern people(s) and settings. It investigates identify formation and cultural construction, as well as politics and ideology in literature. The course examines how texts construct and perpetuate on often problematic version of cultural identify. Students will explore how unique histories, traditions, and politics are significant factors in reading and analyzing literature and will investigate how literature addressed to the western reader often perpetuates a stereotypical version of the Middle East that homogenizes its populations and fails to account for its complexity. The course can cover a variety of topics and genres including adolescent literature, comic books, the graphic novel, and contemporary fiction about the Middle East. Possible themes for the course include political socialization, religious ideology, indoctrination and dissidence across a range of literary and cultural texts. Taught in English.

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

9/8/2026 - 12/11/2026

Location

McCormack M01-0415

General Ed Requirements

World Cultures

Enrolled / Capacity

15 / 15

Status

Waitlist

Instructor

Rania Said

Tuition*

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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