The Great War and the Making of the Middle East

Undergraduate

examines the downfall and partition of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War and how the modern Middle East was shaped in the war’s aftermath. Topics will include the impact of the First World War on the Ottoman Empire’s population, the perspective of Europeans, Turks, Arabs, and Jews on the empire's fall, the expansion of European empires into the region, and the rise of new states such as Syria and Iraq.