You can probably guess which class I'm TAing this semester by the books on the sidebar.
It's called "State, Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East." Although I know next to nothing about the history of the Middle East, I am really looking forward to learning about it along with my students.
The only thing that worries me is how to keep a room full of very opinionated students from each others' throats when the discussion inevitably turns to root causes of the current quagmire in that region.
At least there will be lively debate, right?
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Just keep it at the debate level and no more. . . .
History of the Modern Middle East wasoutdated the day it came off the press, eh? Just watch a lot of CNN--it'll change over there like the weather in springtime.
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