Assignment Instructions/ Description
1. What changes have occurred in Sudan since the 1970s?2. What do you think about the post-colonial concept of national identity? How did some of these nations come to be? How real are their borders/cultural divides?3. What do you think about the concept of growing populations needing water clashing with neighboring nations wanting the same water for their populations? How should Middle Eastern cities/nations deal with crises such as these?4. In Northern Sudan Islam and Sharia law are strongly established, in the South there is a bit more room for difference. Class, how is that playing out in Sudan? What do you think about the use of Sharia law as a governmental law rather than a volitional religious law?5. What roles have some of the smaller Middle Eastern countries played in Middle Eastern politics? How have they shaped the region?6. How did the Kuwait War influence Saudi Arabia? What changes in politics, religion, and social status have occurred since the 1990s?
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