History of the Modern Middle East / Module 27
Behind the Scholarship: A Private Session with Rashid Khalidi
This private session opens the scholarship behind the course. Rashid Khalidi discusses readings, specialized studies, and the intellectual foundations that shaped the lectures.
Learning objectives
- Recognize the scholarship and readings that inform the course.
- Explain how specialized studies support a broader history of the modern Middle East.
Transcript excerpt
Excerpt from the lesson transcript
And then I assign all or parts of other books that are more specialized, a book on Saudi Arabia, a book on Iran, by Ervand Abrahamian and others of a narrower nature. It's one of my own books, which is a history of the Cold War in the Middle East, because I think it covers the whole post-World War II period.