Dr. Kenneth Cuno

Office: 414 Gregory Hall

Tel. & voice mail: 300-4091

Off. hrs.: W 10 a.m.-noon,

and by appointment.

• Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) Brown Bag Lectures
• Arabic Program
• Turkish Program
• Krannert Art Museum
• Art Theater

Coverage: This course surveys “the central Middle East” – Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, Arabia, Turkey, and Iran – during the three and a half centuries before the First World War. More than half of the course is devoted to the 19th century and the transformative encounter with modern Europe (“the West”), an encounter that continues to this day. 

Grade Distribution:

Lecture Topics:

• Introduction to the Middle East and Islam
• Decline vs. transformation: the Ottoman Empire, 16th-18th c.
• The Reform Era, late 18th through 19th c.
• The advance of European domination
• Colonial modernity

Required Readings

Articles by Dr. Kenneth Cuno

• Cuno, Kenneth M. "“Women with Missing Husbands: Marriage in Nineteenth Century Egypt” ." Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Historiography of Egypt: In Honour of Nelly Hanna. . Ed. Nasser A. Ibrahim. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 2012. 156-170. 
• Cuno, Kenneth M. "“African Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment”." Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. . Ed. Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010. 77-98. 
• Walz, Terence, and Kenneth M. Cuno. "“Introduction: The Study of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean”." Introduction. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. . Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010. 
• Cuno, Kenneth M. "“Egypt to c. 1919” ." The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 5, The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance. . Ed. Francis Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 79-106. 
• Cuno, Kenneth M. "Disobedient Wives and Neglectful Husbands: Marital Relations and the First Phase of Family Law Reform in Egypt." Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia. . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. 3-18. 
• Cuno, Kenneth M. "Divorce and the Fate of the Family in Modern Egypt." Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia. . Ed. Kathryn Yount and Hoda Rashad. Routledge, 2008. 196-216.