Center for Middle East Studies
Current Courses
A growing number of exciting courses, creative and relevant programming, and a steady stream of post-docs and visiting professors offer unparalleled opportunities for MES concentrators who wish to understand this region and to engage with a broad range of issues that affect our world.
Current Courses
A growing number of exciting courses, creative and relevant programming, and a steady stream of post-docs and visiting professors offer unparalleled opportunities for MES concentrators who wish to understand this region and to engage with a broad range of issues that affect our world.
Spring 2025 Courses
- MES 1100 Between the River and the Sea: Political Concepts from Israel/Palestine (Adi Ophir) WRIT
- MES 1111 The Modern Middle East: Struggles for Power and Justice (Alexander Winder) WRIT
- MES 1221 Palestine: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Approach (Loubna Qutami) RPP
Languages
Arabic
- ARAB 0200 First-Year Arabic (Alla Hassan)
- ARAB 0400 Second-Year Arabic (Miled Faiza)
- ARAB 0600 Third-Year Arabic (Elsa Belmont Flores)
- ARAB 0850 Advanced Reading and Composition: Kalila wa-Dimna (Miled Faiza)
Hebrew
- HEBR 0200 Elementary Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda)
- HEBR 0400 Intermediate Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda)
- HEBR 0600 Issues in Contemporary Israeli Society, Politics, and Culture in Hebrew (David Jacobson)
Persian
- PRSN 0105 Accelerated Persian (Michelle Quay)
- PRSN 0200 Basic Persian (Michelle Quay)
- PRSN 0400 Intermediate Persian Language and Culture (Michelle Quay)
Turkish
- TKSH 0200 Introduction to Turkish (Esra Ozdemir)
- TKSH 0400 Intermediate Turkish II (Esra Ozdemir)
Electives
Archeology
- ARCH 0775 Farm to Table: Foodways and Gastro-Politics in the Ancient Near East (Kathleen Forste) WRIT
- ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare (Laurel Bestock)
Assyriology
- ASYR 0900 Longing and Lament: Exploring Love and Death in Ancient Near Eastern Literature (Christie Carr) WRIT
- ASYR 1010 Intermediate Akkadian (Marc Alexandre Nicolas Chapuis)
- ASYR 1300 The Age of Empires: The Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BC (John Steele)
Brown Arts Institute
Cogut Institute for the Humanities
- HMAN 1973N Islam in America: A Global History (Faiz Ahmed)
Comparative Literature
- COLT 0510K The 1001 Nights (Elias Muhanna) WRIT
- COLT 0611D Third World Literature and Thought 1950-1970 (Maru Pabon)
- COLT 1310J The Arab Renaissance (Elias Muhanna) RPP
- COLT 1310V Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World (Ariella Azoulay)
Egyptology
- EGYT 1320 Introduction to Classical Hieroglyphic Egyptian Writing and Language (Middle Egyptian II) (Jonathan Russell)
- EGYT 1370 Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts: An Introduction to Methods and Reading (Jonathan Russell)
- EGYT 2510 Social Life in Ancient Egypt (Laurel Bestock) Graduate level course
French and Francophone Studies
- FREN 1710N Décoloniser l’être (Mohamed Amer Meziane)
History
- HIST 1441 'Neither of the East nor the West': The Ottoman Empire in Asian, African, and European History (Faiz Ahmed)
- HIST 1956R Antisemitism and Modern History (Michael Steinberg)
- HIST 1978J Laboring Against Automation (Ellis Garey) WRIT
- HIST 2972F New Directions in Middle East History (Beshara Doumani)
History of Art and Architecture
- HIAA 0044 Art and Architecture of the Islamic World (Margaret Graves)
- HIAA 1418/HIAA 2418 Islamic Art in the RISD Museum: Thinking With Objects (Margaret Graves)
Judaic Studies
- JUDS 1709 Israel in the Middle East (Rachel Rojanski) WRIT
- JUDS 1756 Ethnic, Religious, and Gender Identities in Modern Israel (Omri Elmaleh) RPP WRIT
Religious Studies
- RELS 0089 Jews and Muslims: Their Contacts through the Ages (Noah Tetenbaum) RPP WRIT
- RELS 0290D Islamic Sexualities (Nancy Khalek) RPP WRIT
- RELS 0600F Contestations Within Political Islam (Suvaid Yaseen)
Modern Greek
- MGRK 2850 Before and After Empire: Material Cultures of the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman World (Alexandra Courcoula)
University Courses
- UNIV 1003 Jerusalem: Jews, Christians, Muslims (Katharina Galor) WRIT
Curricular Programs
RPP
- MES 1221 Palestine: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Approach (Loubna Qutami)
- COLT 1310J The Arab Renaissance (Elias Muhanna)
- JUDS 1756 Ethnic, Religious, and Gender Identities in Modern Israel (Omri Elmaleh)
- RELS 0089 Jews and Muslims: Their Contacts through the Ages (Noah Tetenbaum)
- RELS 0290D Islamic Sexualities (Nancy Khalek)
WRIT
- MES 1100 Between the River and the Sea: Political Concepts from Israel/Palestine (Adi Ophir)
- MES 1111 The Modern Middle East: Struggles for Power and Justice (Alexander Winder)
- ARCH 0775 Farm to Table: Foodways and Gastro-Politics in the Ancient Near East (Kathleen Forste)
- ASYR 0900 Longing and Lament: Exploring Love and Death in Ancient Near Eastern Literature (Christie Carr)
- COLT 0510K The 1001 Nights (Elias Muhanna)
- HIST 1978J Laboring Against Automation (Ellis Garey)
- JUDS 1709 Israel in the Middle East (Rachel Rojanski)
- JUDS 1756 Ethnic, Religious, and Gender Identities in Modern Israel (Omri Elmaleh)
- RELS 0089 Jews and Muslims: Their Contacts through the Ages (Noah Tetenbaum)
- RELS 0290D Islamic Sexualities (Nancy Khalek)
- UNIV 1003 Jerusalem: Jews, Christians, Muslims (Katharina Galor)