Mission

The Center for Middle East Studies (CMES) at Brown University promotes research, teaching and public engagement about the Middle East in a historically and culturally grounded manner. Its coverage is temporally and geographically expansive, extending from antiquity to the present, and it approaches the Middle East as a region with shifting boundaries as well as a conceptual entity within global discourses. As the hub for Middle East studies at Brown, CMES supports research and programming by world-renowned faculty, houses an undergraduate concentration with an interdisciplinary curriculum, and acts as an intellectual and social home for graduate students across various departments. CMES collaborates with other units on campus to further Brown’s work as a global university especially dedicated to seeking a just and prosperous future for all.