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
- MES 1051 Israel-Palestine: Public Humanities (Katharina Galor) WRIT
- MES 1172 Iranian Cinema: History, Aesthetics, and Politics (Mehrdad Babadi) WRIT (course flyer here.)
- MES 1968 Approaches to the Middle East (HIST 1968A) (Beshara Doumani) WRIT (*register under HIST 1968A)
Languages
Arabic
- ARAB 0100 First-Year Arabic (Alla Hassan)
- ARAB 0300 Second-Year Arabic (Miled Faiza)
- ARAB 0500 Third-Year Arabic (Elsa Belmont Flores)
- ARAB 0700 Advanced Arabic: Tales of the City (Elsa Belmont Flores)
- ARAB 0950 Advanced Reading and Composition: Arabic Fiction in the West (Miled Faiza)
Hebrew
- HEBR 0100 Elementary Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda)
- HEBR 0300 Intermediate Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda)
- HEBR 0500 Writing and Speaking Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda)
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 0720A Understanding Modern Turkey Through Film and Literature (Esra Ozdemir) FYS
- TKSH 1100 Introductory Ottoman Turkish I (Esra Ozdemir)
Electives
Archeology
- ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World (Laurel Bestock)
- ARCH 1642 Queering Ancient Egypt (Robyn Price)
Assyriology
- ASYR 0300 Babylon: Myth and Reality (Christie Carr) FYS WRIT
- ASYR 1000 Introduction to Akkadian (Marc Alexandre Nicolas Chapuis)
- ASYR 1050 Brotherhood of Kings: A History of the Ancient Middle East’s First International Age, 2000-1200 BCE (Matthew Rutz)
- ASYR 1600 Astronomy Before the Telescope (Erica Meszaros)
- ASYR 2920 Hittite Historical Texts (Felipe Rojas Silva)
Comparative Literature
- COLT 1310G Silk Road Fictions (Tamara Chin)
Egyptology
- EGYT 1310 Introduction to Classical Hieroglyphic Egyptian Writing and Language (Middle Egyptian I) (Christelle Alvarez)
- EGYT 1435 At the Crossroads of Three Continents: Ancient Egypt’s History from the Collapse to Cleopatra (Jonathan Russell)
- EGYT 2300 Readings in Ancient Egyptian (Christelle Alvarez)
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)
History
- HIST 0246 The Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East (Faiz Ahmed)
- HIST 1205 The Long Fall of the Roman Empire (Jonathan Conant)
- HIST 1457 Understanding the Palestinians (Beshara Doumani) RPP WRIT
- HIST 1953S Costs of Resistance: History Through Film (Suvaid Yaseen)
- HIST 1963Q Sex, Power, and God: A Medieval Perspective (Amy Remensnyder) WRIT
- HIST 1964L Slavery in the Early Modern World (Adam Teller) RPP WRIT
- HIST 1968A Approaches to the Middle East (Beshara Doumani) WRIT
IAPA
- IAPA 1203 History of American Intervention (Stephen Kinzer)
- IAPA 1804A Iran and the Islamic Revolution (Stephen Kinzer) 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) WRIT
- JUDS 1755 Mizrahi Jews: Migration to Israel from Muslim Lands (Omri Elmaleh) WRIT RPP
Language Studies
- LANG 0710 Protest and Dissidence in Iran (Michelle Quay) WRIT FYS
Modern Greek Studies
- MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience (Yannis Hamilakis) CBLR
Religious Studies
- RELS 0090A Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (Susan Harvey) WRIT FYS
- RELS 0405 Arts of the Sacred and Demonic in the Ancient Mediterranean (Susan Harvey, Gretel Rodriguez)
- RELS 1530I Methods and Problems in Islam: Ethics and Islamic Tradition (Nancy Khalek)
Curricular Programs
RPP
- HIST 1457 Understanding the Palestinians (Beshara Doumani)
- HIST 1964L Slavery in the Early Modern World (Adam Teller)
- JUDS 1755 Mizrahi Jews: Migration to Israel from Muslim Lands (Omri Elmaleh)
WRIT
- 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) (Beshara Doumani)
- ASYR 0300 Babylon: Myth and Reality (Christie Carr)
- FREN 1710J Geopolitics and Identity Divides in the Middle East (Maan Alsahoui)
- HIST 1457 Understanding the Palestinians (Beshara Doumani)
- HIST 1963Q Sex, Power, and God: A Medieval Perspective (Amy Remensnyder)
- HIST 1964L Slavery in the Early Modern World (Adam Teller)
- HIST 1968A Approaches to the Middle East (Beshara Doumani) WRIT
- 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)
- JUDS 1630 The Talmud (Michael Satlow)
- JUDS 1755 Mizrahi Jews: Migration to Israel from Muslim Lands (Omri Elmaleh)
- LANG 0710 Protest and Dissidence in Iran (Michelle Quay)
- RELS 0090A Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (Susan Harvey)
FYS
- TKSH 0720A Understanding Modern Turkey Through Film and Literature (Esra Ozdemir)
- ASYR 0300 Babylon: Myth and Reality (Christie Carr)
- 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)
CBLR
- MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience (Yannis Hamilakis)