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Why and How Should Middle East and African Studies Be Connected? (posed by Mervat Hatem)

Pensée 1: Africa on My Mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Mervat Hatem
Mervat Hatem*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; e-mail: [email protected]
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Extract

For years, I struggled with the presentation of the category of “Middle East” to my students at Howard University, a historically black college. Like many of their professors, my students did not consider North Africa to be part of Africa. The reason was simple: the study of the continent was bifurcated between two fields, African and Middle East studies. African studies focused on sub-Saharan Africa; North Africa was the purview of Middle East studies.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 189 - 192
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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NOTES

Author's note: I dedicate this piece to my students at Howard University and San Francisco State University, who have heard me struggle to articulate these thoughts.

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3 Personal communication with professor Joel Samoff, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 11 October 2008.

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