Middle Eastern Studies

Our MA in Middle Eastern Studies provides expert research-led teaching in the politics, anthropology and sociology of the modern Middle East and North Africa. We offer a broad choice of modules that allow you to pursue your own interests and deepen your understanding and knowledge of one of the most contested and important regions in the world today. We offer a broad choice of modules that allow you to pursue your own interests and deepen your understanding and knowledge of specific topics.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key benefits
Additional academic development, mentoring, and time to develop your intellectual interests.
Wide range of optional modules taught by world leading scholars in modern Middle Eastern Studies.
Engagement with leading practitioners, including from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British Council, the media, civil society organisations.
Exposure to latest debates through regular public lectures organised by the department and its research clusters.
Opportunity to study Arabic, Turkish, Farsi or Hebrew through King’s Modern Language Centre.
Skills workshops with professionals working on the region to enhance employment opportunities.
Strong intellectual and methodological foundations for further research.
Opportunity to develop communication skills by presenting and disseminating research in written and oral forms to classmates, tutors, and the wider academic community.