Week One Revisited and Week Two

In the first week, we hit most of our targets (introducing policies and reviewing the perspectives on globalization, with some overview of what globalization is, when it started, and how it has shaped the Middle East in some way since, arguably, the beginning of recorded history.) But we were tripped up by Diigo quietly switching to a pay service. I’ve almost settled on a replacement but I have to do some more testing and I’ll update that part of the blogging assignment on Thursday.

This week we will spend a day examining Tunisia’s revolution and the circumstances leading to it. We’ll follow up Thursday looking at foreign aid and other factors of globalization linked to the Tunisian revolution, and then begin to look at the Egyptian revolution.

We’ll start class today with a review of that history of modern Tunisia (12:00-12:50) and break for 15 minutes. From 1:05 to 1:50 I will introduce the class blog and some resources that we’ll use for the rest of class today, including our Diigo replacement, Zotero, and Google Maps. Then from 2:00 to 3:00 we will use Google Maps for an active reading exercise with the chapter “Greetings to the Dawn” in Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution.

For our active reading exercise, choose a partner to work with. We’re going to roleplay a Tunisian police inspector tracking and profiling Malek Sghiri using his diary entry as evidence.

I’ll assign your team a section of the reading. Find a couple of significant locations on Google Maps and tag them in this map.

To build a profile, make some notes on the following themes and add them in a comment on this blog post:

  1. Family background.
  2. Psychological profile.
  3. Educational background.
  4. Known associates.
  5. Known infractions and offenses.
  6. Assessment of threat to state security.

Update for Thursday

Here’s the map we created in class on Tuesday:

I put it here not only to preserve it but also to test out embedding maps into blog posts. It takes a few steps but it’s not really hard.

When you create your maps for tagging your blog artifacts, set them to be publically viewable but not editable. Then, when viewing your map, click “Open in My Maps,” like in the screenshot.

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Then click “Preview” and you’ll get a new screen that says “Share.”

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Clicking “Share” will get you a new menu, at the bottom of which you can choose the embed code.

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Copy that and then click “Add Media” at the top of your blog editing screen and choose “Insert embed code.” Paste and voilà!

 

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3 Responses to Week One Revisited and Week Two

  1. Zachary Marshall says:

    3. A student of Contemporary History at the April 9 College of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Tunis. He is a political activist, blogger, trade unionist and leader of the General Union of Tunisian Students. He founded the movement Jil Jadid (New Generation), participated in student demonstrations in Tunis, in the revolt of Thala, and in the mass protests against the rule of Ben Ali that took in place in Tadamon.

  2. Ashley says:

    1.
    2.”God is great!” chant signifies Islamist; Reminiscent of Palestine signifies oppression.
    3.Union background and knowledge of history makes him better able to organize an uprising.
    4. Ziad
    5. Street battles and plans to lure police into alleyways in order to attack.
    6. Imminent threat–wants to fuel the uprising and plans to assassinate the president if opportunity arises. He knows the city well (Tala, Kasserine and Sidi Bouzid).

  3. mrubbo says:

    1) From Tala, Tunisia; Grandson of two revolutionaries from 1906 Nationalist Movement Tayyib, Lazhar; Son of Political Prisoner imprisoned for 7 years by the Ben Alli regime; raised by his Mother, Grandmother and Uncle in their family home with his brother, Dhaffer, and sister, Sana’a

    2) Raised in a family with a history of civil unrest and defiance against the regime, Father was imprisoned on two separate occasions for a total of 7 years. Raised by his mother who championed the ideas of courage, fortitude, honesty, modesty, manliness, piety, dignity, and gallantry

    3)Student of Contemporary History at 9 April University, Human and Social Sciences. Expelled from University of Tunis in 2007

    4) Two fellow students also expelled from the Institute, Damir and Munji, also accused of “defaming the President”; Ezza Darbali, fellow student and potential love interest.

    5) Expelled form Institute in 2007 after co-founding the General Union of Tunisian Students at his University; spent a lot of time in different groups trying to organize different debates and protests. Went back to school at 9 April University soon after expulsion

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