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Note on transliteration -- What is a document -- How to read a document -- Introduction -- European imperialism, c. 1750-1914. Napoleon in Egypt ; Algeria: French colonization and the Algerian response ; American-Ottoman relations in an imperial age ; Anglo-French justifications of imperialism: racial superiority and commercial investments in Egypt and Tunisia ; Zionism: its origins and objectives ; Missionary ventures and educational experiments: European and Middle Eastern feminine interactions ; World fairs and tourism: imperial portraits of the Oriental and the Oriental response ; Egypt: British and Egyptian critiques of imperialism ; Iran and the European powers: oil concessions and territorial partitioning ; Al-Afghani and Azoury: Muslim and Arab Christian rejections of indigenous accommodation to Western inroads -- Between old and new: reforming state and society, c. 1750-1914. Cairo vs. Istanbul: Egyptian and Turkish reforms and their implications ; Visits across the Mediterranean: MENA and European impressions of each other ; Official and popular calls for reform: Tunisia, Iran, Ottoman Turks ; Mutual incomprehension?: women, education, and public behavior ; Emigration: the search for livelihood abroad -- World War I and its aftermath, c. 1914-1923. Wartime conditions ; Journalism, truth, and war reporting ; The Armenian question ; Promises, promises: Britain, France, and the Arab movement ; Promises to keep: Britain, Palestine, and the Zionist movement ; Postwar settlements: the Great Powers and the Middle East ; Protests and rebellion ; Egyptian protests -- Picture essay : Portrayals: women, work, education, war, and peace, c. 1800-present -- From the Great War to World War II, c. 1923-1950. Reforms and their motivations: Turkey and Iran ; Living in two worlds ; Egypt: European influences and the definition of culture ; Going to the movies ; North African experiences with France and the United States ; Palestine from World War I to 1948 ; The Palestinian Arab response to the Churchill White Paper ; Iraqi Jews in the 1930s and 1940s ; America and Saudi Arabia, the oil connection -- Struggles for independence and new forms of political community, c. 1950-1980. Immigrations and displacements ; Nationalism and cold war tensions: Egypt, Lebanon, Iran ; Algeria's war of independence: torture and colonial rule ; Women, education, and the public sphere ; Arab-Israeli conflicts: the 1967 War and the Lebanese civil war ; Qaddafi's Green Book: path to the future? ; Sayyid Qutb: Jahiliyyah and Islamic liberation ; America and Iran: the Shah and the Islamic revolution ; Yearnings for love and home -- Unknown destinies, c. 1980-present. Urban transformations and ethnic interactions: Turkey and Germany ; Islam, women, clothing, and identity in France and MENA ; Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and protests ; Afghanistan and Iraq before September 11, 2001 ; Al-Qaida, 9/11, and the American response: prisoners, refugees, and human rights ; Tunisia and Egypt rebel: dictatorships and crony capitalism -- Timeline.

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