The 2011 Arab uprisings and their aftermath

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    Course

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    London

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    Different dates available

Examine the complex realities of the 'Arab Spring', the different outcomes emerging in the various Arab states and the aftermath, on this interactive lecture-based course. This interactive lecture course provides an insight into a rapidly changing situation with major implications for the 21st century.

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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Identify key events in the recent history of the Middle East
- Discuss conflicting arguments over the causes of these dramatic developments.

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Course programme

- The upheavals in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria; implications for the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia, the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and international relations.
- The different outcomes emerging in the various Arab states and the aftermath.

Lectures, questions, and discussion. A notebook and pen for recording ideas would be useful. Some books are recommended for optional further reading should you wish to attend the other two courses. Anne Alexander, Nasser (Haus Publishing, London, 2005) Adeed Dawisha, The Second Arab Awakening: Revolution, Democracy, and the Islamist Challenge from Tunis to Damascus (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013) Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples. With a New Afterword by Malise Ruthven (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010) Peter Mansfield, A History of the Middle East (3rd edition revised and updated by Nicholas Pelham, Penguin, London, 2010) Eugene L. Rogan, The Arabs: A History (Basic Books, New York, 2009).

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The 2011 Arab uprisings and their aftermath

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