Week 6: 3/17-3/21

 

III.  Foreign Encounters

 

Week 6: The Colonial Era

 

•     Tuesday (3/18) – Film: Lawrence of Arabia

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Hwk – Eres: “Shattered Myths” & “Arabs, Islam and Dogmas of the West” (pp. 89-105), Orientalism: A Reader; Lawrence of Arabia handout (prepare questions for class discussion)

 

•     Thursday (3/20) – Arabia and Orientalism

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Hwk – ERes: “The White Way and the Desert” & “Romantic Deserts of Fact and Fiction” (pp. 33-50), The White Way and the Desert; Southern Gates of Arabia (pp. 61-90)