HIST 58: Palestine: 1,000 Years

Instructors: Lorenzo Bondioli, Rosie Bsheer, and Cemal Kafadar 

Covering a whole millennium and beyond, this course privileges the long history of Palestine in order to center the continuities and breaks in the region’s past and how these shaped people’s everyday lives. The course takes off in the early medieval period with the Islamic conquests and moves through five centuries of Ottoman rule. The last third begins with Ottoman Palestine before and after Jewish settlement in the late-nineteenth century then proceeds to the emergence of nationalism, British colonial domination, the Nakba, the formation of the state of Israel and its aftermath, and the trajectory of the Palestinian struggle for national liberation.