Survey the history of the Middle East from the beginning of the Neolithic period (9000 BCE) through the invasion of the region by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE and into the pre-Islamic era.

A survey of the history and civilization of the Middle East from the sixth to the fourteenth century.

The responses of the societies of the Middle East and North Africa (Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, and the Arab world) to Western cultural and political challenges, primarily since about 1800.

Introduction to the urban centers of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Studies of areas and issues in the Middle East and North Africa.

Examination of the social, psychological, and spiritual perspectives toward the ideas of love and intimacy; how love and intimacy interact with rapid social, economic, and cultural change; and how the subsequent change transformed the social world and the meaning of love. Subjects include the aspects of self and identity; differentiation in the context of love in the modern age; the family and the individual; the impact of industrialization on private lives and the public order; gender, communication, love; intercultural love and intimacy; and personal choice and arranged marriages.

Exploration of practices, beliefs, and issues through the study of various musical genres in the regions of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, Europe, and the Americas.

Introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Jewish people from around 1000 BC to the end of the medieval period. Subjects may include ancient Israel, late Second Temple sectarianism, the rise of Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, medieval Jewish philosophy, Jewish mysticism, and Hebrew poetry.

Introduction to the many interpretations of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) and its meaning in the context of its historical and cultural setting in the ancient Near East.

The beliefs, theology, history, and main social and legal institutions of Islam, including the concept of God and society, the role of women, and Islamic government and movements.

Introduction to the major themes of North African history from the sixteenth century to the present.

Examine the history of anti-colonial struggles in North Africa and the victory over European colonial powers.

Introduction to the religious landscape of the Middle East including the various expressions of Eastern Christianity, Islam, and Judaism as well as Zoroastrianism.

An introduction to the history of Israel, from the emergence of the modern Zionist movement beginning in 1881 to the present.

Examines the intertwined historical developments of the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and explores the principal beliefs and practices of Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. University credit is awarded to work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Provides an opportunity for students to interact with peer groups in Middle Eastern countries in which Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish are spoken. Students engage in a variety of cultural activities and correspond with peer groups via blogs and Internet discussion forums.

Dicuss Muslims living in regions where non-Islamic socio-political systems and infrastructures predominate, exploring the material cultures produced in places where Islam did not originate as, or is not, the dominant authority.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

A survey of Ottoman society and culture and of the empire's place on the world scene.

Introduction to 20th-century Arab world history, primarily focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, and Egypt. Explore the transformation of this region from a single cultural and political entity under imperial Ottoman rule, through colonial rule to the age of the nation-state and its struggles. Discuss key themes including colonial rule and relation to Europe and the US, Arab nationalism, revolutionary modernism, the impact of Zionism and Israel, the Palestinian revolution, the emergence of political Islam, civil wars, and the oil revolution. Examine internal and external forces and pivotal processes that have shaped the region over the past century through political, social, intellectual, and economic factors.

A historical and ethnomusicological survey of the Arab, Turkish, and Persian music cultures.

Examines critical spatial theory, landscape phenomenology, histories of Zionist architecture and urban planning as applied to Israel from the Yishuv period to the present.

Explore what life is like in today's contested, rapidly growing, and increasingly diverse Jerusalem.

Explore the social and economic life, religion, law, government, ideology, arts, and sciences of the Ottomans. Examine the Ottoman political governance and the course of its development through a socio-historical lens.

Analyze the politics and art of Iran's 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising movement. Develop a digital humanities resource on the movement through collaboration.

Anthropological and sociological analysis of space, with a special emphasis on urban theory and culture in the Middle East.

In-depth study of domestic, regional, and international factors involved in politics in the Middle East, including simulation of diplomatic interaction in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Examines local and transnational forces that have driven and continue to drive contemporary urbanization in Turkey. Focuses on key issues that emerge in rapidly growing cities of the developing world, such as growing income inequality and socioeconomic exclusion, environmental challenges, and rising violence.

Study of the Islamic world and major sociological concepts such as gender, social organizations, culture, and politics. Examines how culture is mediated by politics, resulting in diverse interpretations of Islam and in different policies with respect to women's rights.

Examines the complex social fabric that comprises contemporary Israeli society, and that shapes Israeli identity, practice and politics.

An introduction to Islamic political thought.

General survey of major themes, genres, and artists in the Arabic literary tradition from the sixth century to the modern era.

Explore the history, language, style, and themes of the Qur'an.

Designed to give students a foundation in the substantive teachings of the shariah, which comprises not only what we normally think of as law, but also ethics and etiquette.

Examines gender discourses through North African and West African literary works by looking at the role(s) played by Islam and Christianity in the creation of the identities of African men and women. Includes discussion of the question of what gender is, and whether it is socially constructed.

An introduction to the diversity of prophetic literature in the Old Testament, its historical development, social context, and Near Eastern parallels.

Explore the development of complex societies in ancient Greece by studying its prehistory through archaeology.

Delve into all areas of Egyptian daily life from the dawn of the dynasties to the age of Cleopatra.

Examines the figure of Abraham as portrayed in the Bible and the reception of that portrayal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Examine angelology, demonology and magic influence on the lives of early Christians and Christianity.

Examine individual and communal forms of Christian monasticism from the first through fifth centuries CE. Explore the social, economic and religious factors that may have made a life of self-denial attractive to many early Christians and the role of authority in these movements.

Discussion of Egypt's culture, language, and history from the prehistorical period (13,000 BC) to the New Kingdom (1069 BC).

Explore the use of persuasive strategies in an ancient and non-Western culture, that of the Hebrew Bible. Using rhetorical techniques, analyze three types of texts: narratives of interactions between ordinary people and God; interactions between people, God, and authorized prophets; and prayers in prose and poetry.

Examine the legal traditions of the Torah (Pentateuch) and what they reveal about the practice of law and justice in ancient Israel and the wider biblical world.

Study the socio-historical circumstances that gave shape to the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Examine how these five books achieved the status of sacred literature.

Examine theoretical readings and concrete examples of how translation politics, translation-induced reconstruction of literary systems, censorship, manipulation, and market dynamics affect the production, distribution, and reception of translated products in the realm of arts and entertainment, news media and politics, and various academic disciplines in the Middle East, United States, and beyond.

Study of the first decades of Israeli literature. Themes include the establishment of a new state in the aftermath of the Holocaust, conflict between Israel and Arab nations, and conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Examine the significance of music in the social and political uprisings of countries across the Middle East.

Examine Arabic literary works (ninth through twentieth centuries) that display humor and its unspoken counterpart, hardship. Consult modern theories of humor and premodern Arabic-Islamic ideas of the jocular.

Introduction to key religious, philosophical, and political ideas from part of the Islamicate world through sustained readings of core texts.

Introduction to some of the most pertinent social and political themes in celebrated films across Arab countries, Turkey, Iran, and Israel and Palestine.

Explore the relationship between movies and fans within a global perspective. Examine case studies from and through the Middle East to understand the resonance of cult media texts around the world.

Examine representations of Muslims in the dominant cultural media of the European Middle Ages, and in cultural media of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Explore how Europeans envisioned Muslims, and how Muslims envisioned themselves.

Examine the coalescence of educational theories and national aspirations in the process of shaping child-rearing practices within the Jewish population of Palestine under the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate and into the first two decades of the State of Israel.

Explore cross cultural contacts between the East and the West during the modern period. Analyze Islamic civilization in the Middle East of the modern era by addressing the development of religion, law, government, and morality during and after the colonial period.

Explore the history and culture of modern Egypt through selected readings in twentieth-century film and fiction.

Explore how Turkish culture is neither static nor monolithic but is continuously contested and redefined. Investigate tensions between secularism and Islam, Orientalist and Occidentalist fantasies, and imperialist and nationalist desires to better understand the sociopolitical dynamics that define Turkish society today.

Examine the cultural production that surrounds key moments of political and social change in the Middle East.

Examine complex politics and poetics behind the translation and marketing of Arab women's writing in the West.

Explore French-language cultural production by authors of Arab origin in France and across France's former colonial and mandate territories. Examine the fraught relationship many of these authors have with French language, literature, and culture, in dialogue with postcolonial theory.

Addresses the role of media in the Middle East, considering communication texts, processes and industries in political, social, economic, and cultural contexts.

Explore myths and legends contained in a variety of ancient sources, including texts from Israel, Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.

Explore the diversity of ethnic and religious minorities found in the Middle East through their history, languages, beliefs, and cultures.

Explore how past, present, local, and regional events inform current Jordanian culture and identity.

Examination of early Christian and late Roman art and architecture, including related traditions, such as Jewish, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, Persian,and Syriac.

Explore the role of astrology in ancient Mediterranean religious life.

Explore Sufism and other Islamic mystical traditions that color cultural milieus spanning four continents and fourteen centuries. Focus on the historical developments in the Islamic theosophical tradition, as well as the relationship between Sufism and poetics, colonialism, and post-colonial resistance movements.

Critically examines the social, political, and intellectual dynamics that shaped the different forms of political community, economic organization, and public culture over the past century. Covers colonialism, liberalism, Arab socialism, authoritarian capitalism, and Islamic republicanism.

Survey the history of the medieval Middle East, from the period of Late Antiquity (in the seventh century) to the rise of early modern empires of the Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals (in the seventeenth century), through close examination of the meaning and significance of 100 objects.

Survey the history of the medieval Middle East, from 1500 to the present, through close examination of the meaning and significance of 100 objects.

Explore the art and culture of the global Middle Ages through close examination of recent films, popular and academic publications, and works of art and architecture that reveal the interconnection between the European and the Islamic worlds.

Explore the history of Roman Africa with emphasis on what is now Tunisia and northern Algeria.

Examine attempts to find a measure of justice after the Holocaust. Explore themes of human rights and international law.

Introduction to the history of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Examines forces that transformed the area from a relatively peaceful region to a radicalized environment. Explores colonialism, nationalism, secular modernism, impact of Zionism, rise of political Islam, status of women, and the oil revolution.

Examine a history of the religious and cultural development across the Islamic world between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, stemming from the rise of the Mongols and the end of the caliphate. Explore the early modern Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and the Mughals.

Examine how various groups of people understood, experienced, and imagined concepts such as "the East" and "Asia" with a primary focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The development of regions within the Mediterranean, variously called the West and East or Europe and Islam, with an emphasis on the role of modern France and France's Mediterranean empire.

Introduction to modern Middle Eastern and Islamic history in the broader context of globalization, with a primary focus on the nineteenth century to the present.

Examine the historical, social, and political processes of change experienced by the Palestinian-Arab community in Israel, including the fundamental aspects pertaining to the founding of Israel as "a Jewish and democratic state" and the relations between the Arab minority and the Jewish majority.

Examine the elements of the Arab-Israeli conflict, including the main figures involved, events, and turning-points in its history.

Examine the history of the Levant, a region that includes Syria, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan.

Explore the evolution of crime and law enforcement in the modern Middle East.

Explore the history of food and beverages in the Middle East and Asia, including Palestine/Israel, Egypt, Iran, India, China, and Japan. Investigate themes of identity, capitalism, and globalization to reflect on the role of food consumers in an interconnected world.

Examine the early-modern networks established by the Sephardi Jews (Sephardim) across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the rich Ladino Judeo-Spanish culture that thrived in the Ottoman Empire, and Sephardi encounters with the modern world.

A survey of the social, economic, and religious components unique to Iran from the pre-Islamic empire of the Achaemenids through the development of Iran as a medieval and premodern Islamic state.

Explore archaeological methods in examining texts and artifacts from first century CE.

Examine Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities in the Ottoman Empire (fourteenth to twentieth centuries), with a focus on dynamics both within and between the communities.

An introduction to the impact of Islam on Spain and North Africa, with emphasis on social, economic, and cultural development.

Explore the development of modern Iran; special attention is given to the impact of the West, the constitutional movement, nationalism, the oil crisis, and the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Survey of the Hajj, Islam's major pilgrimage to Mecca and the nearby Holy Places. It will examine the Islamic pilgrimage from its beginnings in the seventh century C.E. through today.

A detailed study of the prophet Muhammad's life and message, and of the means by which his life was recorded and popularized.

Reading and discussion about the lands, cultures, and societies of the eastern Mediterranean from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Students prepare to study in the Middle East (in Middle Eastern Studies 352) and begin work on their individual research projects.

Students study and conduct research in the Middle East.

Under supervision of a faculty member, students complete their research projects following participation in Middle Eastern Studies 352.

Supervised individual research, discussion, and writing of papers about various general and specialized Middle Eastern subjects.

Research and staff experience working in an appropriate agency or business.

Supervised individual reading for one semester, followed by research and writing to produce a substantial paper on a special topic in middle eastern studies, to be completed during the second semester.

Multidisciplinary seminar for students in area studies, business administration, law, and public policy. The faculty includes both academics and business leaders.

Advanced studies of various aspects of the civilizations and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.

Topics include developmental activity and spatial change in the Middle East, comparative regional studies.

Readings and research on the political systems of the Arab world, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan. Precise topics vary.

Students conduct research and participate in other work in an appropriate agency or business.

Advanced studies of various aspects of social sciences in the Middle East.

Exploration of legal structures of the modern Middle East from a comparative approach.

Examine the laws that govern religion and religious expression in Middle Eastern national constitutions, with a special focus on both the free exercise and establishment clause of Islam as the religion of the state.

Advanced studies of various aspects of history in the Middle East.

Examine scholarship on crime and criminals, as well as police and law enforcement across the Middle East. Discover how crime and law enforcement have evolved over the past two centuries in the Modern Middle East.

Study of the British empire in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Examine the significance of the transnational movement of people, ideas, and goods in the process of constructing geocultural categories such as the West, the East, and Asia; and their subcategories such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.

Examine modern Iranian history from the nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on a body of scholarship that critiques methodological nationalism.

Examine theories, methods and debates associated with nationalism in the Modern Middle East, including the histories of national and translational manifestations of nationalism, as well as the nationalisms of minorities in the region, and thematic topics such as race and ethnicity, gender, historiography, and religion.

Advanced studies of various aspects of the arts and humanities in the Middle East.

Explore the traditions formed in pre-modern Islamic humanities.

Explore how Arabic literature and thought changed over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through extended studies of poetry and prose written in Arabic. Examine the relationship of modernity to modernist literature in order to define what modernism means in an Arab/ic context.

Examine Maghrebi literature and film of both French and Arabic expression, along with works of psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory.

Study of state and society in the late Ottoman Empire (c. 1700-1922), focusing on social and economic life, religion, law, government, ideology, arts, and sciences.

Exploration of the idea, history, figures, and writings of Islamic feminism, covering the 20th and 21st century.

Examine new analytical approaches to understanding the Middle East, including its social and political dynamics, utilizing an interdisciplinary approach.

Examine representations of women across majority Muslim countries and explore how women producers and consumers navigate within the framework of regulations set by religious and governmental bodies.

Examine the canons of Arabic literature through readings in translation.

Examine how the representation of space and place in literature contributes to understanding the global, social, and cultural dynamics since the nineteenth century. Explore the poetics of space as expressed in literature from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

Explore Arabic poetic production.

Supervised individual study of selected problems in Middle Eastern Studies.

Introduces the incoming Master of Arts student cohort to the Center of Middle Eastern Studies' faculty and their research.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.

Teaching under the close supervision of a faculty member; weekly group meetings with the instructor, individual consultation, and reports throughout the teaching period.