Freie Universität Berlin

Week 1 & 2

• Edward Said, First two chapters and fourth chapter.
• Manan Ahmed, Flying Blind (pdf: pg1 pg2)

Week 3

• Thomas Coryat, Letters from India (1611), selections ( 1 2 3 )

Week 4

• JEAN-FRANÇOIS AUGOYARD, Step by Step: Everyday Walks in a French Urban Housing Project (1-23)
• Michel DeCerteau, The Practice of Everyday Life. (selections)

Week 5

• Henry Blount, Selections: [1 2 3]
• Sabine Schülting, Strategic Improvisation: Henry Blount in the Ottoman Empire (2011)

Week 6

• G. J. Alder, “ William Moorcroft Plays the Great Game, 1808-1825” The International History Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Apr., 1980), pp. 172-215
• William Moorcroft, Selections [1 2]Week 7
• Dane Kennedy, The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (2005) [Selection]
• Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah [Selection]Week 8

  T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (selections)
  C. Kaeppel, Lawrence of Arabia, The Australian Quarterly (1936)
  Linda J. Tarver, In Wisdom’s House: T. E. Lawrence in the Near East, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 585-608

  Week 9
  Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands -[selections: Introduction by Rory Stewart, Preface, First Crossing of Empty Quarter, Second Crossing of Empty Quarter]

  Week 10
  Priya Satia, Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (2008) [selections]

  Week 11
  Rory Stewart, The Places in Between [selections]