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.

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

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.

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.