Middle Eastern Studies

Courses

Core courses include: Religion 106, Islam; Literature 2060, Modern Arabic Fiction; Literature 2185, The Politics and Practice of Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa; and History 185, The Making of the Modern Middle East. MES electives include: Arabic 101–102, Beginning Arabic; Arabic 201–202, Intermediate Arabic; Arabic 301–302, Advanced Arabic; Hebrew 101–102, Elementary Hebrew; Literature 2062, Old Arabic Books; and Anthropology 277, In the Garden of Empire: Nature and Power in the Modern Middle East. MES junior seminars carry the 300-level designation, and are chosen in consultation with the student’s adviser.

Recent Senior Projects in MES

“Challenging and Subverting Girlhood and Motherhood in Contemporary Egyptian Children’s Literature”“Curricula and Performativity: Defining the Arab ‘Other’”“Diaspora as Nation: Examining the Transnational Mobility of Syrian Armenians during Wartime”