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.