Kyriakos Th. Nikolaou-Patragas

Teaching Staff PD 407/80

3 hours per week

Course Objectives

This course is offered to the second direction of studies in the Faculty (History, Politics, Society and Economy), as a compulsory–elective course of the programme.

It examines mainly the ideological streams of Western origin, that penetrated into the Middle East as a result of the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon, of colonialism, of the dissolution of the Ottoman empire and of the statal organisation of the Middle Eastern countries. The particularities of each state entity are outlined, and the possibility for a pan–Arabic unity is discussed.

Course Structure

1. Islamic monarchy
2. Liberalism in the Middle East
3. The concept and the purpose of the political parties in the Middle East
4. Nasserism and the role of the military in the Arab world
5. Baathism
6. Particular instantiations of Nasserism
7. Kingdoms with a pro–Western orientation
8. The spurious urbanisation and the monstrous capitalist development
9. The Egyptian model of secularism at the time of Mubarak
10. Marxism
11. The ideology of the Muslim Brothers
12. Salafism
13. The statal future of the Middle East

Assessment

Final written examination.

Bibliography

Μάζη, Ι.Θ., Η γεωπολιτική της ευρύτερης Μέσης Ανατολής και η Τουρκία, Αθήνα, Λιβάνης, 2008.

Μάζη, Ι.Θ., Γεωπολιτική των υδάτων στη Μέση Ανατολή: Αραβικές χώρες, Ισραήλ, Τουρκία, Αθήνα, Παπαζήσης (Β' εκδ.) 2000.

Ροντενσόν, Μ., Οι Άραβες, Αθήνα, 1980.

Ψυρούκη, Ν. Ο νεοαποικισμός. Ανατομία του σύγχρονου κόσμου, Αθήνα, 1980.

Ψυρούκη, Ν., Αραβικός κόσμος και ελληνισμός, Λευκωσία, 1992.