HI 31P
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Summer examinations 20010/11
LEGACIES OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN THE ARAB WORLD
(i) For candidates who are offering a whole-unit paper:
Time allowed: 3 hours
Answer THREE questions.
(ii) For candidates who are offering a half-unit paper:
Time allowed: 2 hours
Answer TWO questions.
Answers should NOT include any significant amount of material already presented in
ANY assessed essays.
Read carefully the instructions on the answer book and make sure that the particulars
required are entered on each answer book.
1. ‘Not quite African, not quite Arab, not quite European, the Magrib inhabits a space
between the essentialisms evoked by each.’ Discuss.
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2. What role did Europe have in North Africa and/or the Middle East in the 19th and 20th
centuries?
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3. How does gender history help us understand imperial organisation?
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4. In what ways does the category Arab Jew (Mizrahim) contribute to the histories of
Israel and Palestine?
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5. Assess the role of religion in nation-building.
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6. Did Jews and Arabs occupy two distinct communities?
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7. Assess the types of historical paradigms used to portray the history of Palestine and
Israel.
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8. Why did Arab leaders turn to Germany for material and moral support in the 1920s and
1930s?
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9. What roles did Maghribi soldiers play in European conflict and how do their actions
help us understand North African identity?
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10. The history of the Second World War is Eurocentric. Discuss.
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11. Evaluate Fritz Grobba’s description of Germany’s Arab Policy during the 1930s as
one of wasted opportunities.
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12. Did National Socialist anti-Semitism provide the foundation for anti-Semitism in the
Arab world?
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