This course is not only informative but it also provides insight into the Middle Eastern history. It helps our understanding of the history and relationships between European countries and the Middle Eastern countries as wel as between the Middle Eastern countries themselves. I am glad I attended it.

Good overview. Wish we could have articles rather than books for complementary readings (from a time perspective). As well, would be great if, when showing and talking about maps, the professor could point to the area he is talking about. Sometimes it was really hard to make out what was on the maps.

The information is great and delivered in a way easy to understand. It is clear the presenter is passionate about the topic and presenting. The quizzes capture knowledge that is actually important to know. There are photos, literary sources, and many maps. However, slightly boring to watch.

The professor was very pleasant to listen to. The pacing was overall good, though the last few lessons have quite a bit of information packed in. My only real complaint was that I was hoping for more explicitly direct links to be made to modern events. Still, very enjoyable class.

Information organized in an accessible manner and articulative of key points.

However, note takings are time consuming due to lack of presentational material during the lectures.

Perhaps extra addition of visual aid would enhance the educational experience.

It was excellent course, this course help me to know the politacal relationship between arab and west country. How to west culture influence to the arabic culture that is specified this course. Thanks dear honourable teacher who conduct this course

Thorough and in-depth without being overwhelming. An interesting perspective with logical arguments. The final exam is reliant on remembering facts rather than the bigger picture, though the facts aren't simply directly copied from the lectures.

A good overview of middle eastern politics in the 18-19th century. The pace of the course is very brisk, especially if you're not familiar with imperial history, but if you do some of the readings it will be very easy to follow the pace.

I very much enjoyed the thoroughness of Dr. Susser's explaination, the slow and clear manner of his teaching and the structure of the course into small, short videos. This allowed me to complete the course in small doses through my busy

A glimpse into the dynamics of the middle east. This course gave me insights into how Southeast Asia ( where I am at) also emerged, developed, and maintained by the superpowers; and insight on the her future developments.

Very interesting. Enlarged my understanding of how this region became what it is today and its current day events. Links events throughout modern history. Would definitely recommend!

I had an enjoyable morning to learn the modern politics of the middle east, thank you for giving me a chance learn by the course coordinators, lectureres and big thanks to coursera!

The Course is definitely recommended to those with interest in the Middle East. The course itself was pretty short and the reading material provided wasn't accessible

The information given is great so far. I would like to have some more questonnaire or summaries to further implement the learned content. Thank you for your services.

Excellent course! Though sometimes I feel like the lectures can be redundant... But it's also good to really make sure the main points stick.

Excellent course that really expanded my knowledge of the Middle East and historical drivers of conflict and friction. Bravo!

Very informative course and dealt with very exhaustively. The maps given with the lessons could have been a little clearer.

Very informative course, but it would be better with more multimedia materials to make the history more interesting.

Sometimes the language used by the Prof was a bit too technical, but in overall it is a great course!

well planned and gives information about the middle eastern history in a compartmentalized manner.

Each lesson is well constructed with short "bite" size lessons and easy to keep attention to.

The course is very interesting and has a lot of content, but it could be more structured.

This subject should be taught as a course in the Turkish education curriculum.

Un curso que muestra otra perspectiva del surgimiento de Medio Oriente.

el curso es sumamente informativo y entretenido, vale la pena llevarlo