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.
Fall 2024 Courses
* Not yet listed in C@B
- MES 1051 Israel-Palestine: Public Humanities (Katharina Galor)
- MES 1172 Iranian Cinema: History, Aesthetics, and Politics (Mehrdad Babadi)*
- MES 1968 Approaches to the Middle East (HIST 1968A)
- MES 1971 Senior Honors Thesis (Alex Winder)
Languages
Arabic
- ARAB 0100 First-Year Arabic (Alla Hassan)
- ARAB 0300 Second-Year Arabic (Miled Faiza)
- ARAB 0500 Third-Year Arabic (Elsa Belmont Flores)
Hebrew
- HEBR 0100 Elementary Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yahuda)
- HEBR 0300 Intermediate Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yahuda)
- HEBR 0500 Writing and Speaking Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yahuda)
Persian
- PRSN 0100 Basic Persian (Michelle Quay)
- PRSN 0300 Intermediate Persian Language and Culture (Michelle Quay)
Turkish
- TKSH 0100 Introduction to Turkish Language and Culture I (Esra Ozdemir)
- TKSH 0300 Intermediate Turkish (Esra Ozdemir)
- TKSH 1100 Introductory Ottoman Turkish I (Esra Ozdemir)
- TKSH 0720A Understanding Modern Turkey Through Film and Literature (Esra Ozdemir)
Electives
Archeology
- ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World (Laurel Bestock)
- ARCH 0230 Myriad Mediterraneans: Archaeology, Representation and Decolonization (Peter Van Dommelen) RPP FYS
- ARCH 1642 Queering Ancient Egypt (Robyn Price)
- ARCH 2245 Rural Landscapes and Peasant Communities in the Mediterranean (Peter Van Dommelen)
Assyriology
- ASYR 1000 Introduction to Akkadian (TBD)
- ASYR 1900 Introduction to Hittite Language and Literature (Felipe Rojas Silva)
Classics
- CLAS 1210 Mediterranean Culture Wars: Archaic Greek History, c. 1200 to 479 BC (Graham Oliver) WRIT
Comparative Literature
- COLT 1310G Silk Road Fictions (Tamara Chin)
- COLT 1441 Colonialisms on Trial (Ariella Azoulay)
Egyptology
- EGYT 1310 Introduction to Classical Hieroglyphic Egyptian Writing and Language (Middle Egyptian I) (Christelle Alvarez)
- EGYT 1510 Ancient Egyptian Art II (Laurel Bestock) WRIT
- EGYT 2300 Readings in Ancient Egyptian (Christelle Alvarez) WRIT
- EGYT 2610 Introduction to Demotic (TBD) WRIT
History
- HIST 0150D Refugees: A Twentieth-Century History (Vazira Zamindar)
- HIST 0246 The Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East (Faiz Ahmed)
- HIST 1205 The Long Fall of the Roman Empire (Jonathan Conant)
- HIST 1447 Understanding the Palestinians (Beshara Doumani) RPP WRIT
- HIST 1946L Slavery in the Early Modern World (Adam Teller) RPP WRIT
- HIST 1968A Approaches to the Middle East (Beshara Doumani) WRIT
Judaic Studies
- JUDS 0050P Sacred Spaces: Synagogues, Churches, Mosques (Katharina Galor) WRIT FYS
- JUDS 0608 The Parting of the Ways?: Questioning Jewish/Christian Difference (Jae Han) WRIT
- JUDS 1630 The Talmud (Michael Satlow)
Religious Studies
- RELS 0405 Arts of the Sacred and Demonic in the Ancient Mediterranean (Susan Harvey, Gretel Rodriguez)
- RELS 0600E Islamic Modernities: Religion, Culture and Power (Nancy Khalek) RPP WRIT
- RELS 0090A Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (Susan Harvey) WRIT FYS
IAPA
- IAPA 1203 History of American Intervention (Stephen Kinzer)
- IAPA 1804A Iran and the Islamic Revolution (Stephen Kinzer) WRIT
French and Francophone Studies
- FREN 1710J Geopolitics and Identity Divides in the Middle East (Maan Alsahoui) WRIT
- FREN1710L: Africa in Theory, Philosophy, Anthropology: History Beyond the West (Mohamed Amer Meziane)
Language Studies
- LANG 0710 Protest and Dissidence in Iran (Michelle Quay) WRIT FYS
University Courses
- UNIV 1001 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives (David Jacobson) RPP
Curricular Programs
RPP
- ARCH 0230 Myriad Mediterraneans: Archaeology, Representation and Decolonization (Peter Van Dommelen)
- HIST 1447 Understanding the Palestinians (Beshara Doumani)
- HIST 1946L Slavery in the Early Modern World (Adam Teller)
- RELS 0600E Islamic Modernities: Religion, Culture and Power (Nancy Khalek)
- UNIV 1001 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives (David Jacobson)
WRIT
- CLAS 1210 Mediterranean Culture Wars: Archaic Greek History, c. 1200 to 479 BC (Graham Oliver)
- EGYT 1510 Ancient Egyptian Art II (Laurel Bestock)
- EGYT 2300 Readings in Ancient Egyptian (Christelle Alvarez)
- EGYT 2610 Introduction to Demotic (TBD)
- FREN 1710J Geopolitics and Identity Divides in the Middle East (Maan Alsahoui)
- HIST 1447 Understanding the Palestinians (Beshara Doumani)
- HIST 1946L Slavery in the Early Modern World (Adam Teller)
- HIST 1968A Approaches to the Middle East (Beshara Doumani)
- IAPA 1804A Iran and the Islamic Revolution (Stephen Kinzer)
- JUDS 0050P Sacred Spaces: Synagogues, Churches, Mosques (Katharina Galor)
- JUDS 0608 The Parting of the Ways?: Questioning Jewish/Christian Difference (Jae Han)
- LANG 0710 Protest and Dissidence in Iran (Michelle Quay)
- MES 1051 Israel-Palestine: Public Humanities (Katharina Galor)
- RELS 0090A Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (Susan Harvey)
- RELS 0600E Islamic Modernities: Religion, Culture and Power (Nancy Khalek)
FYS
- ARCH 0230 Myriad Mediterraneans: Archaeology, Representation and Decolonization (Peter Van Dommelen)
- JUDS 0050P Sacred Spaces: Synagogues, Churches, Mosques (Katharina Galor)
- LANG 0710 Protest and Dissidence in Iran (Michelle Quay)
- RELS 0090A Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (Susan Harvey)