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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

IS 130 Where Continents Meet: Contact, Coexistence and Conflict in the Modern Mediterranean World

(4 Credits)
(also listed as HS 130 )

Three continents converge on the Mediterranean Sea: Europe, Africa, and the Middle East/Asia. This makes the region unequaled in the world for interactions across race, religion, and culture. Europeans,  Africans, and Asians have jostled together, coexisting, cooperating, and clashing in unique and fascinating ways. The course is organized around five case studies: how France has responded to having the largest  Muslim minority in Europe, mainly of North African descent; the origins and course of the Arab-Israeli situation in the Middle East; the rise of organized crime and the mafia in Italy; the fall of Yugoslavia into ethnic-religious wars in the 1990s, the worst conflicts in the region since World War II; and the migrant/refugee/terrorism crisis of the early 21st century, spilling over from tensions both within the region and from elsewhere.