Part I. The advent of the modern age
From late antiquity to the dawn of a new age
The Middle East and the modern world system
War, diplomacy, and the new global balance of power
Documents: Evliya Chelebi : Seyahatanam? (1); Evliya Chelebi : Seyahatanam? (2); Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535; The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies; The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies
Part II. The question of modernity
Defensive developmentalism
Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the great nineteenth-century transformation
Photo essay: The great nineteenth-century transformation and its aftermath
Documents: Commercial Convention (Balta Liman) : Britain and the Ottoman Empire; The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane; The Islahat Fermani; The d'Arcy oil concession; Algeria : the poetry of loss; Huda Shaarawi : a new mentor and her salon for women; Rifaca Rafic al-Tahtawi : the extraction of gold or an overview of Paris; Muhammad Cabduh : the theology of unity; Namik Kemal : extract from the journal H'rriyet; The supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907
Part III. War I and the Middle East state system
State-building by revolution and conquest
The invention and spread of nationalisms
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Documents: An Arab soldier in the Ottoman Army; Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919; Theodor Herzl : a solution of the Jewish question; The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917; Mahmud Darwish : eleven planets in the last Andalusian sky
Part IV. The contemporary era
The United States and the Middle East
Conclusion: The end of an era?
Documents: Speech delivered by President Gamal Cabd al-Nasser at Port-Said on the occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961; Zakaria Tamer : tigers on the tenth day
Cali Sharicati : the philosophy of history : the story of Cain and Abel
Ayatollah Khomeini : Islamic government
Statement of the April 6 movement regarding the demands of the youth and the refusal to negotiate with any side
Yassir al-Manawahly, The International Monetary Fund.
From late antiquity to the dawn of a new age
The Middle East and the modern world system
War, diplomacy, and the new global balance of power
Defensive developmentalism
Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the great nineteenth-century transformation
State-building by revolution and conquest
The introduction and spread of nationalism
The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute
State and society in the contemporary Middle East : an old/new relationship
The United States and the Middle East
Israel, the Arab states, and the Palestinians
The Middle East in the "age of globalization."
