WarMigration in MiddleEas Lit

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The history of the modern Middle East has been shaped by war and mass migration, but all too often these phenomena are understood only in the abstract—as masses of numbers. This course explores the experiences of war and migration through literary works that grapple with them on the level of individual, lived experience. In this course, we will survey works from a variety of national situations—Turkey, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq —with an eye toward undercovering shared experiences across the region.