This course focuses on French and British colonial theory and practice in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). After a general introduction to the history of colonialism, the course will examine British and French strategies in mandated Iraq and Syria-Lebanon in the first half of the semester. The second part of the semester will focus on an important case study: French Colonialist policy in Algeria and Morocco. The purpose of this comparative analysis is to show that, beyond the singular purpose of hegemonic control over specific colonial territories and subjects in the MENA region, French and British strategies tactics and goals were quite often dissimilar.
