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 2025 Courses
MES 1051: Israel-Palestine Public Humanities (Katherina Galor) WRIT
MES 1968A: Approaches to the Middle East* (Alex Winder) WRIT
*Register on HIST 1968A
Languages
Arabic
ARAB 0100: First-Year Arabic (Alla Hassan)
ARAB 0300: Second-Year Arabic (Miled Faiza)
ARAB 0500: Third-Year Arabic (Miled Faiza)
ARAB 0700: Advanced Arabic: Tales of the City (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)
PRSN 1100: Reading Persian for Research (Michelle Quay)
Turkish
TKSH 0100: Introduction to Turkish Language and Culture I (Esra Ozdemir)
TKSH 0300: Intermediate Turkish (Esra Ozdemir)
TKSH 0720A: Understanding Modern Turkish Through Film and Literature (Esra Ozdemir)
Electives
Archeology
ARCH 0030: Art in Antiquity: An Introduction (Laurel Bestock)
ARCH 2232: Moving in the Mediterranean: Mobility in Archaeology, Science, and Text (TBD)
ARCH 2720: Abydo: The Layered Pasts of a Sacred Sites (Laurel Bestock)
Assyriology
ASYR 1090: Iconoclasm: Destroying Images in the Near East and Beyond (Felipe Rojas Silva)
ASYR 1400: Introduction to Sumerian (Christie Carr)
ASYR 2400: Akkadian Literary and Religious Texts (Matthew Rutz)
ASYR 2950: Scribal and Scholarly Practices in Babylonia and Assyria (John Steele)
Comparative Literature
COLT 1310G: Silk Road Fictions (Tamara Chin)
COLT 1431K: Modern Arabic Poetry and Poetics (Maru Pabon)
East Asian Studies
- EAST 1706: Transnational Feminist Knowledge Productions and Practices: Perspectives from East and West Asia (Lingzhen Wang, Nadje Al-Ali)
History
HIST 0244: Understanding the Middle East: A Modern History (Faiz Ahmed)
HIST 1202: Formation of the Classical Heritage: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Kenneth Sacks) RPP WRIT
HIST 1968A: Approaches to the Middle East (Alexander Winder) WRIT
Judaic Studies
JUDS 0050P: Sacred Spaces, Synagogues, Churches, Mosques (Katherina Galor) FYS WRIT
Religious Studies
RELS 0600F: Contestations Within Political Islam (Suvaid Yaseen)
RELS 2050: Religious Identities in Sasanian Persia (Jae Han)
Curricular Programs
RPP
- HIST 1202: Formation of the Classical Heritage: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Kenneth Sacks)
WRIT
- MES 1051: Israel-Palestine Public Humanities (Katherina Galor)
- HEBR 0500: Writing and Speaking Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yahuda)
- HIST 1202: Formation of the Classical Heritage: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Kenneth Sacks)
- HIST 1968A: Approaches to the Middle East (Alexander Winder)
- JUDS 0050P: Sacred Spaces, Synagogues, Churches, Mosques (Katherina Galor)
- RELS 0021: Inequality in the Ancient World (Saul Olyan)