Midterm 1 Review Flashcards

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Hemingway - On the Quai at Smyrna (1925)

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Short story - focus on the experiences of lived national self determination struggle/forced relocation of certain groups

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Baran - From Ottomans to Atatürk

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Turkish identity based on citizenship - Din w devlet

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3
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Fromkin - Settlement of ME Question

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4
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Neep - What Have Ottomans Ever Done for Us?

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5
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Wick - Conceptual Approach to the Tanzimat

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Duality of the Tanzimat - first promoting Islamic reform and then promoting secular reform

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Khan - The Caliphate Question

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Smith - The Nation Real or Imagined?

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Roberts - Flawed Principle of National Self Determination

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9
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Zurcher - Turkey A Modern History

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Abdulhamid II appealed to Muslim solidarity; anti imperialist struggle

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10
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Endelman - States in the Ottoman System

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Tier I states: Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia;Tier II states: Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Palestine

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Sharkey - Late Ottoman Millets and Post Ottoman Minorities

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Post WW1 “minority” definition contained threads from old millet patterns; Internal and external emphasis on religion

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12
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Wempe - Understanding the Mandate System

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Mandates as form of international imperialism; protecting imperial civilizing mission; uplift these nations through western ideals

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Pedersen - An International Regime in the Age of an Empire

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Mandatory power was viewed as a new form of, not an alternative to, imperial rule; restrictions were placed on these territories to further the civilizing mission

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14
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Akin - The Ottoman Empire: The Mandate that Never Was

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Pro mandate Ottomans; want US as mandatory power

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15
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Danforth - Turkey’s New Maps Reclaim Ottoman Empire

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Turkish irredentism to replicate 1920 National Pact borders - Neo Ottomanism

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16
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Forman - Settlement of Title Galilee

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Israeli land officials did not want to improve the status of Palestinian farms - instead strove to maximize the land allotted to state/JNF ownership; limit adverse possession of land to Arabs

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How 5 Countries Could Become 14 - NYT

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Suggested remappings of the ME generally do not address issues at the root

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Forever Allon Plan (Carnegie Endowment for Peace)

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Autonomy for Palestinians under political oversight of Israel without recognition of national rights

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Tilsen - Ottoman Land Registration Laws and Israel

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Ottoman land laws; often land not registered in the name of rightful owner - either to evade conscription/taxes or because notables registered all land in their name

20
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Yehoshua - Facing the Forest

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Short story on reforestation - allegory for Israeli-Palestinian relations and how the Palestinian identity/history is erased from Israeli consciousness

20
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Said - Orientalism

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Orientalism 3 prongs: scholarly tradition/practice, binary logic of opposing orient and occident, corporate institution for managing the orient

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Beydoun-Choudhury Intro Islamophobia and the Law

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Islamophobia definition expanded to include how state actors create Islamophobia - Islam as culturally incompatible with the West

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Mutman - “From Orientalism to Islamophobia”

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Native orientalism - seeing the west as superior and above; creation of Islam as a security threat

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Bell - France, Islamophobia and Antisemitism

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Islamophobia and Anti Semitism exist on same spectrum of economic insecurity; islamophobia manifests by seeing the rise of Muslims in the middle class

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Liberation of Women - Qasim Amin

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Presenting ideas as feminist but very surface level; native reproduction of colonial ideas

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Discourse of the Veil - Leila Ahmed.

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Purporting feminism to serve colonial purposes; veil as form of resistance of western domination

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Badran - Between Secular and Islamic Feminisms

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Islamic feminism based on ideas of Quran and hadith; secular feminism arising from numerous ideas

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The Subject of Freedom from Politics of Piety, p. 1-17 - Saba Mahmood

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Inhabiting norms vs resisting norms - different forms of resistance

23
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First Report on Algeria - Alexis De Tocqueville

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France should have complete control of government but locals to rule over the lower levels of administration; not in agreement with ideas of proportional response/just war thereom

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Fanon - On Violence

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Violence as necessary in order to resist colonial powers

25
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Mishra - Frantz Fanon’s Enduring Legacy

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Referred to colonialism as a machine of “naked violence” - western ideology rooted in white supremacy; curse of independence

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Alloula-Colonial Harem

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Postcards as movement of ideas; unveiling the Algerian woman; dispossessing/possessing the “gazing gaze”