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Following the decline of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, five founding moments have marked the history of the Middle East.
The first is the one of European promises, betrayals and establishment of maps and borders (1915 - 1920).
The second moment is that of the creation of Israel in 1947, followed by the First Arab Israeli war (1948-49), and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
The third moment, 1973, is the one of the last Arab-Israeli war (in terms of State to state actor), the end of Nasserism, the oil boom and the rise of political Islam.
The fourth moment is that of the Iranian revolution in 1979 followed by the devastating Iraq-Iran war. It happened at the same moment when the Afghan jihad started against the Soviet army.
The fifth is the one that started in 2011, when revolutions against dictatorships erupted in many Arab countries. Conflicts, counter-revolutions and foreign military interventions followed and led to the series of crises that the Middle East (and the world) continue to witness today.
The course will explore these moments and will examine how the evolution of languages and dialects affected them culturally and politically.
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Monday
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13:45
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15:05
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Thursday
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13:45
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15:05
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