Nation-State the Islamic Veil

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will take a ‘government and international affairs’ approach to examining the geopolitics of the veil in three nation-states, with the primary focus on Turkey. We will examine 1. Secularist rationales for eliminating the veil in nation-states and what it cues to nascent nationalistic groups, 2. The forces of modernity and Westernization in MENA countries, 3. Turkey’s half-European half-Central Asian cultural foci, 4. France’s colonial policies in Algeria and their impact on current events.