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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Fiction and non-fiction work. The major cultural factors shaping their feminist attitudes. Readings: Fatima Mernissi, Nawal El- Saadawi, Etel Adnan, Fadia Faqir, Alifa Rifaat, and Sahar Khalifeh. No knowledge of Arabic required; extra unit for readings in Arabic. Limited enrollment. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender 4 units, Win (Barhoum, K)
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4.00 Credits
Popular colonialist and postcolonialist portrayals of Arab culture and Islam. Recent Western depictions of Arabs and Muslims in travel literature. Readings include Flaubert in Egypt, Guests of the Sheik, Justine, Covering Islam, Nine Parts of Desire, and Motoring with Mohammed. No knowledge of Arabic required. Limited enrollment. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
Advanced Hindi, First Quarter GER:EC-GlobalCom 4 units, Spr (Staff)
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
The basic lexicon and grammar of Hebrew of the Tanakh or Old Testament. 2-4 units, Win (Porat, G)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
The basic lexicon and grammar of Hebrew of the Tanakh or Old Testament. 1-4 units, Spr (Porat, G)
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3.00 Credits
The role of biblical myths in shaping Israeli identity and the development of a secular Hebrew literature. Readings include modern Hebrew poems and novels which offer new meanings to the stories of Genesis, Exodus, David, and the Song of Songs and make them relevant to the context of modern and postmodern Israeli culture. Readings in Hebrew and English. Prerequisite: intermediate Hebrew. GER:DB-Hum 3-4 units, not given this year
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
Offered in conjunction with Amos Oz's visit as Stanford's Writer inResidence. Literature and political essays by Oz and contemporary Hebrew authors who address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Approaches that deal with the intersection of theory and practice and politics and poetics in Israeli literature. No knowledge of Hebrew required. GER:EC-GlobalCom 4-5 units, Aut (Shemtov, V)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: two quarters of Spanish. 1-4 units, Aut (Staff)
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
Sources include short stories, novels, and movies about Beirut, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Amman. Focus is on a cultural and intellectual history of each city. Issues such as the role that Middle Eastern cities play in the development of the modern Hebrew and Arabic novels, the city as a center of social and political life, and the city as a space of collective memory. 4-5 units, Spr (Barhoum, K; Shemtov, V)
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3.00 Credits
3 units, Win (Staff)
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