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  • NELC 618: Iranian Cinema:Gender,Politics and Religion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Minuchehr. This seminar explores Iranian culture, art, history and politics through film in the contemporary era. We will examine a variety of works that represent the social, political, economic and cultural circumstances of post-revolutionary Iran. Along the way, we will discuss issues pertaining to gender, religion, nationialism, ethnicity, and the function of cinema in present day Iranian society. Films to be discussed will be by internationally acclaimed filmmakers, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Tahmineh Milani, Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi, among others.
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  • NELC 632: North Africa:History,Culture,Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Sharkey. This reading- and discussion-intensive seminar approaches the history of modern North Africa (c. 1800-2000) by focusing on the experiences of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Sudan. Among the issues that we will consider are colonialism and post-colonialism, gender, relations, Islam and political activism, civic participation and authoritarianism, trends in economic development, labor migration, ethnicity and minority affairs, and nationalism. Students will conduct an independent research project and report to the class on their findings at the end of the term. Some prior familiarity with Middle Eastern or African studies is required.
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  • NELC 633: Seminar in Selected Topics in Arabic Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Allen. This is the graduate seminar course in which a variety of aspects of Arabic literature studies are covered at the advanced graduate level. Students in this course are expected to be able to read large amounts of literature in Arabic on a weekly basis and to be able to discuss them critically during the class itself. Topics are chosen to reflect student interest. Recent topics have included: 1001 NIGHTS; the short story; the novel; MAQAMAT; classical ADAB prose; the drama; the novella; modern Arabic poetry.
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  • NELC 638: Approaches to Islamic Law

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lowry. Prerequisite(s): Some background knowledge about Islam is an asset. This course aims to introduce students to the study of Islamic law, the all-embracing sacred law of Islam. In this course we will attempt to consider many different facets of the historical, doctrinal, institutional and social complexity of Islamic law. In addition, the various approaches that have been taken to the study of these aspects of Islamic law will be analyzed. The focus will be mostly, though not exclusively, on classical Islamic law. Specific topics covered include the beginnings of legal thought in Islam, various areas of Islamic positive law (substantive law), public and private legal institutions, Islamic legal theory, and issues in the contemporary development and application of Islamic law.
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  • NELC 641: Mesopotamia:The Heartland of Cities

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Zettler. This course surveys the cultural traditions of ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a region commonly dubbed "cradle of civilization" or "heartland of cities," from an archaeological perspective. It will investigate the emergence of sedentism and agriculture; early villages and increasingly complex Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures; the evolution of urban, literate societies in the late 4th millennium; the city-states and incipient supra-regional polities of the third and second millennium; the gradual emergence of the Assyrian and Babylonian "world empires," well-known from historical books of the Bible, in the first millennium; and the cultural mix of Mesopotamia under the successive domination of Greeks, Persians and Arabs. The course seeks to foster an appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of ancient Mesopotamia, an understanding of cultural continuities in the Middle East and a sense of the ancient Near Eastern underpinnings of western civilization. No Prerequisite.
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  • NELC 642: Introduction to Mesopotamian Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Eichler. An introduction to the literature of ancient Mesopotamia.
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  • NELC 651: Dead Sea Scrolls

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Exploration of the issues relating to the identification and history of the people who produced and used these materials as well as the claims made about the inhabitants of the Qumran site near the caves in which the scrolls were discovered, with a focus on what can be known about the community depicted by some of the scrolls, its institutions and religious life, in relation to the known Jewish groups at that time (the beginning of the Common Era). This will involve detailed description and analysis of the writings found in the caves -- sectarian writings, "apocrypha" and "pseudepigrapha," biblical texts and interpretations.
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  • NELC 664: The World of Cleopatra

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Houser Wegner. The figure of Cleopatra is familiar from modern stories, legends, and film. Was this famous woman a brazen seductress or a brilliant political mind How many of these presentations are historically accurate This class will examine the Ptolemaic period in Egypt (305-30 BCE), the time period during which Cleopatra lived, in an attempt to separate myth from reality. The Ptolemaic period is filled with political and personal intrigue. It was also a time of dynamic multiculturalism. Arguably one of the most violent and fascinating eras in ancient Egyptian history, the Ptolemaic period is largely unknown and often misunderstood. This course will examine the history, art, religion and literature of Egypt's Ptolemaic period which culminated in the reign of Cleopatra VII.
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  • NELC 666: History of Ancient Egypt

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Wegner. Review and discussion of the principal aspects of ancient Egyptian history, 3000-500 BC.
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