Write a short (3-5 paragraph) essay in response to the following prompt:
How do historians participate in creating history, beyond merely discovering and documenting facts in primary sources? Remember to write a thesis statement into your first paragraph, and cite specific examples from contemporary debates in Middle East history from this week’s readings in support of your argument.
Arab Spring:
http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/Pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=20
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/A-mass-expression-of-outrage-against-injustice
ISIS
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/experts/bergerjm
The 1953 Mossadegh Coup in Iran
http://www.cfr.org/iran/really-happened-iran/p33125
http://www.cfr.org/iran/coupdunnit/p33929
Imperialism
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/25/its-time-to-bring-imperialism-back-to-the-middle-east-syria-iraq-islamic-state-iran/
http://www.thenation.com/blog/208161/whats-wrong-robert-kaplans-nostalgia-empire#
Islam and Science
https://blackboard.indstate.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-2801368-dt-content-rid-15582759_1/courses/20150330330/al%20Afghani%20Response%20to%20Renan.pdf
How to Read a Secondary Source
http://www.bowdoin.edu/writing-guides/secondary.htm
What history is
by Professor AlunMunslow
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Whatishistory/munslow6.html
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