Spring 2024

HISTORY 110D 001 - LEC 001

Palestine and the Palestinians: A Modern History

Ussama Makdisi

Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024

Tu, Th

02:00 pm - 03:29 pm

Joan and Sanford I. Weill 101

Class #:31772

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through History

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 91

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 91

Waitlist Max: 10

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 to 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 0 to 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Final Exam

MON, MAY 6TH

11:30 am - 02:30 pm

Physics Building 2

This course teaches the modern history of Palestine and the Palestinian people from a multireligious Ottoman Palestine to the contemporary moment. It centers the experience of being Palestinian at home and in exile after the Nakba of 1948. In particular, it examines the origins of one of the longest running and most significant settler colonial realities in modern history. The course explores the history and ethics of Palestinian resistance to their dispossession, the literary and visual expressions of Palestinian identity, and the representations of the Palestinian struggle in the West. Using a broad range of primary sources, literary texts, and films, students will be encouraged to reflect upon Palestinian history on its own terms.