Gender & Citizenship in the Middle East
ANTH S441E (CRN: 30322)
Instructors: Eda Pepi
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Online Course. This seminar invites students to explore how gender, sexuality, and citizenship intersect across the Middle East and North Africa, examining how these identities shape—and are shaped by—forces like nationalism, migration, capitalism, family, and religion. Drawing from ethnography, history, and literature, we trace how gender roles and sexual minorities simultaneously fuel and question colonial legacies that uphold racialized ideas of “modernity.” And ask: How do global border regimes and the political economy of intimacies that sustain them reshape what it means to be—or not to be—a citizen? Our approach extends beyond laws to include everyday acts of citizenship across national and cultural divides. Readings highlight how people navigate their lives in the everyday, from the ordinary poetry of identity and belonging to the spectacular drama of war and conflict. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.