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Resources Lectures & Events – The Center for Middle Eastern Studies hosts a lecture series every semester, which attracts some of the best scholars on the Middle East. For information, check out the CMES web site at: www.ias.berkeley.edu/cmes Films on the Middle East – In addition to the holdings at Moffitt & the Pacific Film Archives, take advantage of the Arab Film Festival (in San Francisco October 11 th -14 th , arabfilmfestival.org ) and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival ( sfjff.org ) News websites – News about the Middle East is reported by the corporate media in the US in ways that are strikingly different from the coverage in Europe, Asia or the Middle East itself. Check out the corporate media, such as the New York Times & CNN, but also try to become familiar with alternative media coverage. In addition, take a look at websites of news organizations in other country to get a taste of what the rest of the world reads about the Middle East. The following is but a small sample: Britain: Guardian ( guardian.co.uk ), BBC ( bbc.co.uk/news ) Egypt: Al-Ahram Weekly ( ahram.org.eg ), Egypt Independent ( egyptindependent.com ) France: Le Monde Diplomatique in English ( mondediplo.com ) Israel: Haaretz ( haaretz.com ) Lebanon: Daily Star ( dailystar.com.lb ) Additional sources: Jadaliyya ( jadaliyya.com ) MERIP ( merip.org ) The Forward ( forward.com ) Al-Jazeera (aljazeera.com ) Schedule Week 1 (August 23 rd ) Introductions Week 2 (August 30 th ) Framing the Politics of Memory, Truth and Reconciliation * M-R. Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Beacon Press, 1995) * S. Haugbolle & A. Hastrup, ‘Introduction: Outlines of a New Politics of Memory in the Middle East’ in Mediterranean Politics 13:2 (July 2008), 133-49. * A. L. Smith, ‘Heteroglossia, “common sense,” & social memory’ in American Ethnologist 1:2 (2004), 251-67 * U. Makdisi & P. Silverstein, ‘Introduction: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa’ in U. Makdisi & P. Silverstein, eds., Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006), 1-24 R. Saunders & A. Aghaie, ‘Introduction: Memory and Mourning’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25:1 (2005), 16-29 J-W. Müller, ‘Introduction: the power of memory, the memory of power and the power over memory’ in J-W. Müller, ed., Memory and Power in Post-War Europe. Studies in 2
the Presence of the Past (Cambridge UP, 2002), 1-35 W. Kannsteiner, ‘Finding Meaning in Memory’ in History and Theory 41 (May 2002), 179-97 T.G. Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence and the Work of Truth Commissions (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 52-104 R. A. Wilson, The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa. Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State (Cambridge UP, 2001), especially 1-30, 221-230 Weeks 3-4 (September 6 th & 13 th ). Lebanon * S. Haugbolle, War and Memory in Lebanon (Cambridge UP, 2010) * A. Peleikis, ‘The Making and Unmaking of Memories: The Case of a Multi-Confessional Village in Lebanon’ in Makdisi & Silverstein 2006, 133-48 S. Mejcher, ‘Elias Khoury: the necessity to forget and remember’, interview, Banipal 12 (Autumn 2001) E. Khoury, Yalo (Archipelago Books, 2008) Films: TBC based on availability Week 5 (September 20 th ). Algeria * J. McDougall, “Savage wars? Codes of violence in Algeria, 1830s-1990s” in Third World Quarterly 26:1 (2005), 117-131 * International Crisis Group (ICG), The Civil Concord. A Peace Initiative Wasted, Africa Report no.31, 9 July 2001 [20 pp.] * G. Joffe, ‘National Reconciliation and General Amnesty in Algeria’ in Mediterranean Politics 13:2 (July 2008), 213-228 * B. Stora, ‘The Algerian War in French Memory: Vengeful Memory’s Violence’ in Makdisi & Silverstein 2006, 151-173 * J. McDougall, History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), especially 1-19, 217-238 For any French readers: A. Moussaoui, De La Violence en Algérie (Paris: Actes Sud, 2006), especially 391-437 Week 6 (September 27 th ). Morocco *S. Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2005) F. Vairel, ‘Morocco: From Mobilisations to Reconciliation?’ in Mediterranean Politics 13:2 (July 2008), 229-41 Human Rights Watch (HRW), Morocco’s Truth Commission. Honoring Past Victims During an Uncertain Present, Report 17 (11) E, available at http://hrw.org/reports/2005/morocco1105 N. Ghessous, Women and Political Violence During the Years of Lead in Morocco (CCHR – NIPPHR, 2009), available at http://www.ccdh.org.ma/IMG/pdf/GUIDang.pdf 3
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