Syllabus/achievement requirements

• Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. [pages 1-276].

• Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. [pages 1-276].

• Sharabi, Hisham. ¡°Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society¡±. Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1987): 1-19.
• Badran, Margot. ¡°Islam, Patriarchy, and Feminism in the Middle East¡±. Trends in History 4, no. 1 (1986): 49-71.
• Roald, Anne Sofie. ¡°¡®Benevolent Patriarchy¡¯: Palestinian Women between ¡®Ideal¡¯ and ¡®Reality¡¯¡±. Islam and Christian¨CMuslim Relations 24, no. 3 (2013): 333-347.
• Bahramitash, Roksana & Jennifer C. Olmsted. ¡°Choice and Constraint in paid work: Women from low-income households in Tehran¡±. Feminist Economics 20, no. 4 (2014): 260-280.

• Beblawi, Hazem. ¡°The rentier state in the Arab world¡±. Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 4 (1987): 383-398. [Available via Fronter].
• Skocpol, Theda. ¡°Rentier state and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian Revolution¡±. Theory and society 11, no. 3 (1982): 265-283.
• Hertog, Steffen. ¡°The Sociology of the Gulf Rentier Systems: Societies of Intermediaries¡±. Comparative Studies in Society and History 52, no. 2 (2010): 282-318.
• Ross, Michael L. ¡°Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring?, Foreign Affairs 90, no. 5 (2011): 2-7.

• Charrad, Mounira M. ¡°Central and Local Patrimonialism: State-Building in Kin-Based Societies¡±. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 636 (2011): 49-68.
• Springborg, Robert. ¡°Patrimonialism and Policy Making in Egypt: Nasser and Sadat and the Tenure Policy for Reclaimed Lands¡±. Middle Eastern Studies 15, no. 1 (1979): 49-69.
• Lust, Ellen. ¡°Competitive Clientelism in the Middle East¡±. Journal of Democracy 20, no. 3 (2009): 122-135.
• Koehler, Kevin. ¡°Authoritarian Elections in Egypt: Formal Institutions and Informal Mechanisms of Rule¡±. Democratization 15, no. 5 (2008): 974-990.

Seminar No. VI (September 14-16^that Granavolden): Explaining Authoritarianism in the Middle East

• Hinnebusch, Raymond. ¡°Authoritarian persistence, democratization theory and the Middle East: An overview and critique¡±, Democratization 13, no. 3 (2006): 373-395.
• Posusney, Marsha Pripstein. ¡°Enduring Authoritarianism: Middle East Lessons for Comparative Theory¡±. Comparative Politics 36, no. 2 (2004): 127-138.
• Bellin, Eva. ¡°The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective¡±. Comparative Politics 36, no. 2 (2004): 139-157.
• King, Stephen J. ¡°Sustaining Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa¡±. Political Science Quarterly 122, no. 3 (2007): 433-459.

Seminar No. VII (September 14-16^that Granavolden): Why the Arab Uprisings?

• Gause III, F. Gregory. ¡°Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring: The Myth of Authoritarian Stability¡±. Foreign Affairs 90, no. 4 (2011): 81-90.
• Kurzman, Charles. ¡°The Arab Spring Uncoiled¡±. Mobilization: An International Journal 17, no. 4 (2012): 377-390.
• Campante, Filipe R. and Davin Chor. ¡°Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring¡±. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 2 (2012): 167-187.
• Leenders, Reinoud. ¡°Social Movement Theory and the Onset of the Popular Uprising in Syria¡±. Arab Studies Quarterly 35, no. 3 (2013): 273-289.
• Pearlman, Wendy. ¡°Emotions and the Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings¡±, Perspectives on Politics 11, no. 2 (2013): 387-409.

• Said, Edward W. ¡°Orientalism Reconsidered¡±. Cultural Critique 1 (1985): 89-107.
• Scott, Matthew. ¡°Edward Said¡¯s Orientalism¡±. Essays in Criticism 58, no. 1 (2008): 64-81.
• Lewis, Bernard. ¡°The Question of Orientalism¡±. The New York Review of Books, June 24,1982.
• Sadowski, Yahya. ¡°The New Orientalism and the Democracy Debate,¡± Middle East Report, no. 183 (1993): 14-21, 40.
• Halliday, Fred. ¡°¡®Orientalism¡¯ and its critics¡±. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 20, no. 2 (1993): 145-163.
• Burke III, Edmund and David Prochaska. ¡°Rethinking Historical Genealogy of Orientalism¡±. History and Anthropology 18, no. 2 (2007): 135-151.
• Makdisi, Ussama. ¡°Ottoman Orientalism¡±. The American Historical Review 107, no. 3 (2002): 768-796.

Seminar No. X (September 14-16^that Granavolden): Research Ethics

• The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees. "Guidelines for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Law and Theology." Oslo, 2016.
• Lee Ann Fujii, "Research Ethics 101: Dilemmas and Responsibilities", PS: Political Science & Politics 45, No. 4 (2012): 717-723.

Seminar No.XI (October 27^th at UiO): Combined Theory Seminar and Project Description Workshop

Social Movement Theory: The Case of Islamist Movements

• Kurzman, Charles. ¡°Structural Opportunity and Perceived Opportunity in Social-Movement Theory: The Iranian Revolution of 1979¡±. American Sociological Review 61, no. 1 (1996): 153-170.
• Clark, Janine. ¡°Social Movement Theory and Patron-Clientelism: Islamic Social Institutions and the Middle Class in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen¡±. Comparative Political Studies 37, no. 8 (2004): 941-968.
• Wicktorowicz, Quintan. ¡°Framing Jihad: Intramovement Framing Contests and al-Qaeda¡¯s Struggle for Sacred Authority¡±. International Review of Social History 49 (2004): 159-177.
• Tu?al, Cihan Z. ¡°The Appeal of Islamic Politics: Ritual and Dialogue in a Poor District of Turkey¡±. The Sociological Quarterly 47, no. 2 (2006): 245¨C273.

• Allen, Roger. ¡°Lords of misrule: history and fiction in two Moroccan novels¡±. Middle Eastern Literatures 9, no. 2 (2006): 199-209.
• Granara, William. ¡°Mythologising the Algerian war of independence: Tahir Wattar and the contemporary Algerian novel¡±. The Journal of North African Studies 4, no. 3 (1999): 1-14.
• El Guabli, Brahim. ¡°Novelising the Arab revolutions: The Knights of Assassinated Dreams¡±. The Journal of North African Studies 20, no. 2 (2015): 143-158.
• Guth, Stephan. ¡°Avatar and ?Az¨¡z¨©l ¨C Western and Middle Eastern patterns of individual revolt: An essay in the simultaneity of ruptures¡±, In La litt¨¦rature ¨¤ l'heure du ?Printemps Arabe?: analyse et perspectives / Literature and the ?Arab Spring? : analyses and perspectives, edited by Sobhi Boustani. Paris, 2015, forthcoming.

• Ibrahim, Muhammad H. ¡°Standard and Prestige Language: A Problem in Arabic Sociolinguistics¡±. Anthropological Linguistics 28, no. 1 (1986): 115-126.
• Uzum, Baburhan and Melike Uzum. ¡°The Historical and Linguistic Analysis of Turkish Politicians' Speech¡±. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 23, no. 4 (2010): 213-224.
• Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein. ¡°Forms of Address in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Persian: A Sociolinguistic Analysis¡±. Language in Society 17, no. 4 (1988): 565-575.
• Nahir, Moshe. ¡°Micro Language Planning and the Revival of Hebrew: A Schematic Framework¡±. Language in Society 27, no. 3 (1998): 335-357.

• Lindholm, Charles. ¡°The New Middle Eastern Ethnography¡±. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1, no. 4 (1995): 805-820.
• Henry Munson, Jr. ¡°Rethinking Gellner¡¯s Segmentary Analysis of Morocco¡¯s Ait ¡®Atta¡±. Man 28, no. 2 (1993): 267-280.
• Ernest Gellner and Henry Munson, Jr. ¡°Segmentation: Reality or Myth?¡±. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1, no. 4 (1995): 821-832.
• Cherstich, Igor. ¡°When Tribesmen do not act Tribal: Libyan Tribalism as Ideology (not as Schizophrenia)¡±. Middle East Critique 23, no. 4 (2014): 405-421.
• Fredrik Barth. ¡°Father¡¯s Brother¡¯s Daughter Marriage in Kurdistan¡±. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 10, no. 2 (1954): 164-171.

Seminar XV (November 10th at UiO): Project Description Workshop (if needed).

Seminar XVI (November 11th at UiO): Project Description Workshop (if needed).