This semester we watched two movies based in or around this Catalan city.
What is Barcelona?
100
These peoples, believed to have migrated to Europe from South Asia approximately 1,000 years ago, are Europe's largest minority, and continue to suffer from stigma, discrimination, and political oppression in many countries.
Who are the Roma people?
100
This political philosophy posits that all human groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality.
What is cosmopolitanism?
100
According to class presentations, the "evil eye" is a consequence of this negative human emotion.
What is envy?
100
These are the two major denominations of Islam.
What are Shia and Sunni?
200
This island in the Eastern Mediterranean is contested territory between its Greek and Turkish inhabitants.
What is Cyprus?
200
Bree Akesson argues that this practice of systematic home demolitions is a human rights violation.
What is domicide?
200
This film follows the adventures of a young French man to Barcelona, and can be interpreted as a metaphor for a cosmopolitan world.
What is "L'Auberge Espagnole"?
200
This ethnic/cultural group suffered a genocide at the hands of the Ottoman government during and after World War I.
Who are Armenians?
200
King compares the Mediterranean to this river that runs along the border between Mexico and the United States.
What is the Rio Grande?
300
The State of Palestine consists of these two territories.
What are the West Bank and the Gaza Strip?
300
In the early 20th century, this colonial power was involved in both the Cyprus conflict, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What is the British Empire?
300
In class we studied these four dimensions of cosmopolitanism.
What are ideology, experiences, institutions, and rhetoric?
300
In various communities across the Mediterranean, men's honour is dependent on this.
What is women's shame (or modesty)?
300
This is a form of social relationship that exists across the Mediterranean, in stratified agro-pastoral contexts, and involves mutual obligations between individuals of unequal status.
What is patronage (or patron-client relations)?
400
These 5 countries constitute North Africa.
What are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt?
400
This country currently hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees.
What is Turkey?
400
Cosmopolitans argue for and work towards establishing this form of political system.
What is global democracy?
400
The mafia was born in this region of Italy.
What is Sicily?
400
This international institution drafted and recommended a partition plan for Palestine in 1947.
What are the United Nations?
500
The film, Niguri, documents the experiences of refugees at a transit camp in this Calabrese town.
What is Lampedusa?
500
This Palestinian term refers to the war and events of 1948 that lead to the declaration of Israel as an independent state, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
What is "al Nakba"?
500
While cosmopolitanism places great value on social mobility, invoked in experiences of travel and ideals of being "global citizens", such ideals have been criticized for this.
What is reflecting an elite perspective of the world.
500
This island nation is close to both Tunisia and Libya, and is often used as an entry point into the European Union by immigrants from Africa.
What is Malta?
500
These are the names of all the flatmates in L'Auberge Espagnole.
Who are Xavier, Wendy, Isabelle, Soledad, Lars, Tobias and Lars.