Explores the cultural politics of representations of the Arab and Islamic worlds both with an emphasis on literary representations of the Islamic world in travel narratives and novels from both the West and the Arab world. Examines historical, anthropological, and visual texts to consider how Islam has been narrated in colonial European imaginings about the Islamic world as well as contemporary representations. Taught in English.
instructor(s)
Surhio, Naseem Khalid
Primary Instructor
- Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
