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The main aim of this course is to provide a thematic approach to the study of conflict and terrorism in the Middle East, with a critical inquiry over `what we think we know' about terrorism and conflict in the Middle East. To do that, the course will start of with an exposition of the competing theories on conflict and terrorism. Then, it will move on to the creation of the contemporary `conflict structures' in the Middle East during World War I. The class will then move onto case studies such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, examples of religious or secular terrorisms, and the modern manifestations of the Sunni-Shia conflict.