{"id":11604,"date":"2025-06-16T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/previous-courses\/%previous-courses-categories%\/society-and-politics-in-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:42:07","slug":"society-and-politics-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/de\/previous-courses\/summer-2020\/society-and-politics-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Society and Politics in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-93552f31\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Society and Politics in the Middle East<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#yuksel-taskin-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"5221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Y\u00dcKSEL TA\u015eKIN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Our course will begin with an introductory introduction to the geography and demographic structure of the Middle East and North Africa, which includes Turkey. In this section, where we will focus on the traces of Western colonialism and its intellectual combination, orientalism, we will try to understand the traces that colonialism left on Turkey and the people of the region, and the effects that have survived to the present day. Then, in order to understand the political and social changes that emerged in the region, especially after World War II, the political histories of Egypt, Iran, Syria and T\u00fcrkiye will be examined with a comparative approach. In the following week, the origins, legal dimensions and political effects of the Arab\/Palestinian-Israeli conflict will be discussed. In the following weeks, the democratization problems experienced in the region and the continuity of authoritarian regimes will be focused on, and the authoritarianization process in T\u00fcrkiye will be discussed in this context. Following this, the causes of the Arab Spring and its short-term consequences will be evaluated separately, also taking into account the Gezi process in T\u00fcrkiye. The transition processes experienced in Egypt and Tunisia will be compared.       <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ortadoguda-toplum-ve-siyaset-syllabus-S20.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"Einbettung von ortadoguda-toplum-ve-siyaset-syllabus-S20.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1698220c-3cec-4ef7-8409-0d6697667eb3\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ortadoguda-toplum-ve-siyaset-syllabus-S20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ortadoguda-toplum-ve-siyaset-syllabus-S20<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">23.04.20 &#8211; 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