Seminar No. I (August 25th, at UiO): Introduction - What is Research?
- Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. [pages 1-276].
Seminar No. II (August 26th, at UiO): What is Research? (cont.)
- Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. [pages 1-276].
Seminar No. III (September 1st at UiO): Neopatriarchy and Gender
- Sharabi, Hisham. “Cultural Critics of Contemporary Arab Society”. Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1987): 1-19.
- Badran, Margot. “Islam, Patriarchy, and Feminism in the Middle East”. Trends in History 4, no. 1 (1986): 49-71.
- Roald, Anne Sofie. “‘Benevolent Patriarchy’: Palestinian Women between ‘Ideal’ and ‘Reality’”. Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 24, no. 3 (2013): 333-347.
- Bahramitash, Roksana & Jennifer C. Olmsted. “Choice and Constraint in paid work: Women from low-income households in Tehran”. Feminist Economics 20, no. 4 (2014): 260-280.
Seminar No. IV (September 8th at UiO): The Rentier State
- Beblawi, Hazem. “The rentier state in the Arab world”. Arab Studies Quarterly 9, no. 4 (1987): 383-398. [Available via Fronter].
- Skocpol, Theda. “Rentier state and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian Revolution”. Theory and society 11, no. 3 (1982): 265-283.
- Hertog, Steffen. “The Sociology of the Gulf Rentier Systems: Societies of Intermediaries”. Comparative Studies in Society and History 52, no. 2 (2010): 282-318.
- Ross, Michael L. “Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring?, Foreign Affairs 90, no. 5 (2011): 2-7.
Seminar No. V (September 9that UiO): (Neo)patrimonalism, Clientelism, Informal Rule
- Charrad, Mounira M. “Central and Local Patrimonialism: State-Building in Kin-Based Societies”. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 636 (2011): 49-68.
- Springborg, Robert. “Patrimonialism and Policy Making in Egypt: Nasser and Sadat and the Tenure Policy for Reclaimed Lands”. Middle Eastern Studies 15, no. 1 (1979): 49-69.
- Lust, Ellen. “Competitive Clientelism in the Middle East”. Journal of Democracy 20, no. 3 (2009): 122-135.
- Koehler, Kevin. “Authoritarian Elections in Egypt: Formal Institutions and Informal Mechanisms of Rule”. Democratization 15, no. 5 (2008): 974-990.
Seminar No. VI (September 14-16that Granavolden): Explaining Authoritarianism in the Middle East
- Hinnebusch, Raymond. “Authoritarian persistence, democratization theory and the Middle East: An overview and critique”, Democratization 13, no. 3 (2006): 373-395.
- Posusney, Marsha Pripstein. “Enduring Authoritarianism: Middle East Lessons for Comparative Theory”. Comparative Politics 36, no. 2 (2004): 127-138.
- Bellin, Eva. “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective”. Comparative Politics 36, no. 2 (2004): 139-157.
- King, Stephen J. “Sustaining Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa”. Political Science Quarterly 122, no. 3 (2007): 433-459.
Seminar No. VII (September 14-16that Granavolden): Why the Arab Uprisings?
- Gause III, F. Gregory. “Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring: The Myth of Authoritarian Stability”. Foreign Affairs 90, no. 4 (2011): 81-90.
- Kurzman, Charles. “The Arab Spring Uncoiled”. Mobilization: An International Journal 17, no. 4 (2012): 377-390.
- Campante, Filipe R. and Davin Chor. “Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 2 (2012): 167-187.
- Leenders, Reinoud. “Social Movement Theory and the Onset of the Popular Uprising in Syria”. Arab Studies Quarterly 35, no. 3 (2013): 273-289.
- Pearlman, Wendy. “Emotions and the Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings”, Perspectives on Politics 11, no. 2 (2013): 387-409.
Seminar No. VIII-IX (September 14-16that Granavolden): Orientalism and Middle East Area Studies
- Said, Edward W. “Orientalism Reconsidered”. Cultural Critique 1 (1985): 89-107.
- Scott, Matthew. “Edward Said’s Orientalism”. Essays in Criticism 58, no. 1 (2008): 64-81.
- Lewis, Bernard. “The Question of Orientalism”. The New York Review of Books, June 24,1982.
- Sadowski, Yahya. “The New Orientalism and the Democracy Debate,” Middle East Report, no. 183 (1993): 14-21, 40.
- Halliday, Fred. “‘Orientalism’ and its critics”. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 20, no. 2 (1993): 145-163.
- Burke III, Edmund and David Prochaska. “Rethinking Historical Genealogy of Orientalism”. History and Anthropology 18, no. 2 (2007): 135-151.
- Makdisi, Ussama. “Ottoman Orientalism”. The American Historical Review 107, no. 3 (2002): 768-796.
Seminar No. X (September 14-16that Granavolden): Research Ethics
- The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees. "Guidelines for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Law and Theology." Oslo, 2016.
- Lee Ann Fujii, "Research Ethics 101: Dilemmas and Responsibilities", PS: Political Science & Politics 45, No. 4 (2012): 717-723.
Seminar No.XI (October 27th at UiO): Combined Theory Seminar and Project Description Workshop
Social Movement Theory: The Case of Islamist Movements
- Kurzman, Charles. “Structural Opportunity and Perceived Opportunity in Social-Movement Theory: The Iranian Revolution of 1979”. American Sociological Review 61, no. 1 (1996): 153-170.
- Clark, Janine. “Social Movement Theory and Patron-Clientelism: Islamic Social Institutions and the Middle Class in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen”. Comparative Political Studies 37, no. 8 (2004): 941-968.
- Wicktorowicz, Quintan. “Framing Jihad: Intramovement Framing Contests and al-Qaeda’s Struggle for Sacred Authority”. International Review of Social History 49 (2004): 159-177.
- Tu?al, Cihan Z. “The Appeal of Islamic Politics: Ritual and Dialogue in a Poor District of Turkey”. The Sociological Quarterly 47, no. 2 (2006): 245–273.
Seminar No.XII (October 28th at UiO): Combined Theory Seminar and Project Description Workshop
Literature and Politics in the Middle East
- Allen, Roger. “Lords of misrule: history and fiction in two Moroccan novels”. Middle Eastern Literatures 9, no. 2 (2006): 199-209.
- Granara, William. “Mythologising the Algerian war of independence: Tahir Wattar and the contemporary Algerian novel”. The Journal of North African Studies 4, no. 3 (1999): 1-14.
- El Guabli, Brahim. “Novelising the Arab revolutions: The Knights of Assassinated Dreams”. The Journal of North African Studies 20, no. 2 (2015): 143-158.
- Guth, Stephan. “Avatar and ?Azāzīl – Western and Middle Eastern patterns of individual revolt: An essay in the simultaneity of ruptures”, In La littérature à l'heure du ?Printemps Arabe?: analyse et perspectives / Literature and the ?Arab Spring? : analyses and perspectives, edited by Sobhi Boustani. Paris, 2015, forthcoming.
Seminar No.XIII (November 3rd at UiO): Combined Theory Seminar and Project Description Workshop
The Politics of Language in the Middle East
- Ibrahim, Muhammad H. “Standard and Prestige Language: A Problem in Arabic Sociolinguistics”. Anthropological Linguistics 28, no. 1 (1986): 115-126.
- Uzum, Baburhan and Melike Uzum. “The Historical and Linguistic Analysis of Turkish Politicians' Speech”. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 23, no. 4 (2010): 213-224.
- Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein. “Forms of Address in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Persian: A Sociolinguistic Analysis”. Language in Society 17, no. 4 (1988): 565-575.
- Nahir, Moshe. “Micro Language Planning and the Revival of Hebrew: A Schematic Framework”. Language in Society 27, no. 3 (1998): 335-357.
Seminar XIII (November 4th at UiO): Combined Theory Seminar and Project Description Workshop
Tribalism and the Segmentation Debate
- Lindholm, Charles. “The New Middle Eastern Ethnography”. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1, no. 4 (1995): 805-820.
- Henry Munson, Jr. “Rethinking Gellner’s Segmentary Analysis of Morocco’s Ait ‘Atta”. Man 28, no. 2 (1993): 267-280.
- Ernest Gellner and Henry Munson, Jr. “Segmentation: Reality or Myth?”. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1, no. 4 (1995): 821-832.
- Cherstich, Igor. “When Tribesmen do not act Tribal: Libyan Tribalism as Ideology (not as Schizophrenia)”. Middle East Critique 23, no. 4 (2014): 405-421.
- Fredrik Barth. “Father’s Brother’s Daughter Marriage in Kurdistan”. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 10, no. 2 (1954): 164-171.