2024/2025
Положение мусульманских женщин на современном Ближнем Востоке и Северной Африке
Статус:
Дисциплина общефакультетского пула
Кто читает:
Институт классического Востока и античности
Когда читается:
4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Самади Можган
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course about women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is designed for one module (four lectures and three seminar sessions). The course starts with an academic survey of the MENA cultures and Islam as a religion. It then continues with identifying interactions and contradictions between patriarchy and Islam in this region, as the background material of the course. In so doing, it focuses on women’s movements in the Middle East and North Africa. The course concludes with a lecture studying the representations of women in contemporary MENA art, including cinema and literature.
Students will be introduced to the use of a range of the most up-to-date international sources relating to the study of women in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, including reference and survey works, studies of subjects, and internet resources.
Students will be able to answer the following two principal questions by the end of the course: “How has the situation of women in the MENA been changing throughout the modern age?” and “In what senses (if any at all) and to what extent the situation of Middle Eastern women distinctive and exceptional?”
The key objectives of these courses are to lay the foundations for a deeper study of the Middle East and North Africa while facilitating acquisition of intellectual and personal transferable skills.
Learning Objectives
- To introduce students to the study of Middle Eastern women from a multidisciplinary perspective. The Course will debunk preconceived stereotypical ideas students might have acquired through the media about Middle Eastern women often typified as socially voiceless, submissive to and dependent on men. The outcomes of this Course are divided into two categories:
- Knowledge and understanding. The first outcome of this course is to introduce students to the situation of women in the contemporary Middle East. This will be done through a mix of published and recorded materials including movies and documentaries.
- Intellectual skills. The second outcome of this course is to improve the intellectual skills of students through the fostering of analytical and critical thinking, synthesis and analysis of data and information as well as to develop advanced skills of written and verbal academic communication, organization and expression of ideas, discussion and debating ethics.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Understanding of the ambiguous approaches towards women in Islam. Acquaintance with the intra-Muslim debates on the topic of Islamic feminism
- Knowledge and understanding. The first outcome of this course is to introduce students to the situation of women in the contemporary Middle East. This will be done through a mix of published and recorded materials including movies and documentaries.
- Intellectual skills. The second outcome of this course is to improve the intellectual skills of students through the fostering of analytical and critical thinking, synthesis and analysis of data and information as well as to develop advanced skills of written and verbal academic communication, organization and expression of ideas, discussion and debating ethics.
Assessment Elements
- Activities in the lecture and seminar sessions
- An oral presentation by each student during the course
- Oral Exam by the end of the module
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.4 * Activities in the lecture and seminar sessions + 0.3 * An oral presentation by each student during the course + 0.3 * Oral Exam by the end of the module
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Abrahamian, E. (2008). A History of Modern Iran. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=234374
- Michael Axworthy. (2016). A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind. Basic Books.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Hamid Naficy. (2012). A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3 : The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984. Duke University Press Books.
- Hamid Naficy. (2012). A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4 : The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010. Duke University Press Books.