International Studies · Boston College
This undergraduate seminar examines wars, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics in the modern Middle East through the intertwined histories of Iran, Palestine, and Algeria, from nineteenth-century imperial expansion and colonial conquest to the wars on Gaza and the recent U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.These cases are central to the broader trajectory of war and revolution in the region. The Algerian Revolution became a defining anticolonial struggle and model for revolutionary movements. The Palestinian struggle has shaped regional wars, occupation, armed resistance, mass uprising, a
