Slow pace, but very detailed analysis. I guess he is a very good teacher for students who can pay attention consistently in class, and this class I'm taking only has three students, so you have to be extremely alert at all times. Anyway I am really loving his class right now.

Such an easy class, the only reason I didn't get an A is because I never went to section (it was my only class on Fridays) and never did the participation assignments which are really easy (but also easy to forget about). Just read the material, pay attention to lectures because he will repeat important info VERY often if you do, and go to section!

He is so disorganized with boring content. Speaks soooo slow that you can easily forget what he said last sentence. He even count the attendance of lecture! Ridiculous!!!!

Its hard to pay attention when every other word he says is "um". I had really high hopes for the class but his lecturing skills are dreadful.

Take this class if you are a progressive interested in current events or the middle east. Otherwise he is very liberal, assumes you know much about the middle east already, and the reading and lecture can be very dense if you lack interest in the topic. On a personal note, he's a very nice and intelligent man and gave out coffee and cookies!

He was completely unorganized, the slides are pratically useless. The books were vaguely on topic of middle eastern history. Taking this class was pointless, i was interested in the material and learnt practically nothing and I'm not a bad student. AVOID!