Students will submit an essay (week 15) on a
topic they chose from a list provided by the instructors. The paper will be
evaluated by taking into account the analytical, organizational and formalistic
quality of the work. The due paper is expected to be between 3,000 and 4,000
words long.
Suggested topics for
your final papers:
Narratives of captivity in the Barbary
World.
Early Modern Livorno (Leghorn) and the
Jews
Mediterranean cosmopolitism
Malta and the Mediterranean, 1565 to 1801.
Europeans in the Levant in the eighteenth
century
Orientalism and colonialism in 19th
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean as a battlefield for the
early modern empires.
8.
The
Sykes-Picot agreement and the birth of the post-WW1 Middle-East.
9.
Cultural,
religious and ethnic stereotypes in the post-WW2 movie production.
10.
War in the
Mediterranean as a part of global empires’ strategies (19th-21th centuries).
