HIST 470 Topics in Middle-Eastern History

Focuses upon one specific topic of modern Middle-Eastern history. The topic chosen will vary but will be within the time period of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Possible topics (among others) are: U.S. policy (or the lack of it) in the Middle East, Israel and Palestine, oil and the Gulf, the post-Saddam Hussein era in Iraq, religious extremism in the Middle East and the Gulf states.