Islamic Civilizations 123: Colonialism and After in the Maghrib
Susan G. Miller
A survey of North African history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the political, social and cultural transformations brought about by the encounter with the West. Colonialism and its impact, the struggle over language and cultural identity, the role of minority politics, the Algerian revolution and civil war, the role of public intellectuals and the new Maghribi historiography are some of the topics covered.

Islamic Civilizations 120: The Muslim Mediterranean City
Susan G. Miller
Cities have defined Mediterranean culture for thousands of years. Using sources from medieval times to the present, the interaction between urban form and social practice is traced against the background of an encompassing Islamic culture. Topics include theories about Islam and urbanism, the city as sacred space, modernism and the making of the colonial city, the contemporary city and the literary imagination, and the city in the age of globalization. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design.

Arabic 246r: Maghribi Literary and Cultural Texts
William E. Granara
Literary and historical texts of the Arabo-Islamic cultures of Spain (al-Andalus), Sicily, and North Africa, including poetry, belles-lettres (adab), biography, travel literature, and chronicles. The course examines the emergence of a "Maghribi" identity amidst cross-cultural relations with the Christian North and the Muslim East

History 1864: Gendered Communities: Women, Islam, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa
Afsaneh Najmabadi
This course focuses on how concepts of woman and gender have defined meanings of religious and national communities in the Islamic Middle East and North Africa. It will survey changes in these concepts historically. We will read a variety of sources--religious texts and commentaries, literary and political writings, books of advice, women's writings, and films--and will look at how contemporary thinkers and activists ground themselves differently in this historical heritage to constitute contesting positions regarding gender and national politics today.