This assessment task is designed to test your understanding of the readings and encourage you to think about their implications in terms of the course.
You are expected to do the required readings(i will upload the reading as PDF), as well as the lectures(i will upload it), to address the questions. You can also raise your own related questions to develop the discussion.
the question
1. What do we mean by “the Middle East”? Define the geographic, political, economic, cultural boundaries of the region.
2. Why does the region figure so prominently in the media, and what are the representations of the region?
3. What is the relationship between the Middle East and Islam: conceptually and empirically?
4. How did the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism, and subsequent disputes, re-shape Middle East studies? What was Said’s main contention?
