For this week, I want us to consider the foundations of the modern Middle East.
The Middle East, as we know it today, is the result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War (1914-1918). Ibn Khaldun wrote about the collapse of empires, and I want you to read the article about Khaldun and his views and ask yourself if (1) he is correct, and (2) reading the documents and lecture slides about the immediate post war settlement in the Middle East, if things could have turned out differently? If so, how and why?
Requirements: 1h

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