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SUMMARY:New Directions in MENA Series
DESCRIPTION:Event co-sponsored by The Program in Comparative Literary Stud
 ies\n\nTopic: Sectarianism in the Middle East \n\nSpeaker: Dr. Ussama M
 akdisi\, Rice University\, Professor of History &amp\;\nArab-American Edu
 cational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies\n\nDescription:\n\nHow does one 
 write a history of sectarianism in the modern Middle East? What does secta
 rianism actually mean? Where does one begin a story of sectarianism?\n\nTh
 e traditional view is that religious violence in the Middle East is an ema
 nation of a peculiar sectarian Middle Eastern condition\, that it is “ag
 e-old” and endemic and that it reflects a problem in the region’s adap
 tation to a secular Western modernity. Sectarianism has often been depicte
 d as a holdover of primordial religious divisions that make up the Middle 
 East.\n\nIn contrast\, I would like to suggest that an Ottoman crisis of r
 eligious pluralism that began in the nineteenth century was itself part of
  a global problem in which many empires and nation-states struggled to tra
 nsform explicit politics of discrimination into those of citizenship and e
 quality.\n\nLunch Served\n\n
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