Center for Middle East Studies
2026–2027
71 courses
- MES 0100The Middle East: Cultures & Societies
- MES 0155Cultures of the Contemporary Middle East
- MES 0165How Did We Get Here: Middle East City from Antiquity to the Present
- MES 0170Visual Expressions of Social Change in the Contemporary Middle East
- MES 0415Pirates, Bandits, Terrorists: Outlaws in the Middle East
- MES 0750Forced Displacement: History, Ecologies and Impacts
- MES 0825From Blind Owls to Mute Dreams: A Introduction to Modern Iranian Literature (in translation)
- MES 0850The Wall, the Drone and the Tunnel-Theaters of Sovereignty and Resistance
- MES 0950Cultures, Societies and Resistance in the Arab World
- MES 1000Tradition and Protest: Persian and Iranian Music
- MES 1001Revolution and Poets: Content and Form in Iranian Poetry
- MES 1050Israel/Palestine: A Critical Lexicon
- MES 1051Israel-Palestine: Public Humanities
- MES 1055Zionism and some of its Jewish Critics: Political, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives
- MES 1100Between the River and the Sea: Political Concepts from Israel/Palestine
- MES 1111The Modern Middle East: Struggles for Power and Justice
- MES 1120Art, Culture, and Society in Tehran
- MES 1150Labor and the Long Downturn in the Middle East
- MES 1151Middle East in Anthropological Perspective (ANTH 1150)
- MES 1170Iranian Art: Sites and Sights
- MES 1171Ethics and Politics of Intimacy in the Middle East
- MES 1172Iranian Cinema: History, Aesthetics, and Politics
- MES 1198Reflections on "The Jewish Question"
- MES 1199Anti-Semitism, Racism, Anti-Zionism: Debates, Contexts, Stakes
- MES 1200Ways of Seeing: The Arab World in Global Perspective
- MES 1221Palestine: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Approach
- MES 1222Modern Palestinian History
- MES 1235Policing and Imprisonment in the Modern Middle East
- MES 1240Middle East as Global History: Comparing and Connecting Theories and Approaches
- MES 1243Understanding Palestine-Israel: Ideologies and Practices
- MES 1244Orientalism and the Question of Palestine: Theory, History, Literature
- MES 1250Palestinians and Kurds: The Condition of Statelessness
- MES 1265Culture and Politics in the Modern Middle East
- MES 1270Histories of Watching and Surveying
- MES 1290War and Cultural Representation in the Modern Middle East
- MES 1291Jerusalem Divided: Politics and Cultural Heritage
- MES 1299Rural Palestine: Natives, Peasants, and Revolutionaries
- MES 1300Intellectual Change: From Ottoman Modernization to the Turkish Republic
- MES 1301Interventions and Activism in the Contemporary Middle East
- MES 1350Israel/Palestine: The One State Condition
- MES 1400The Middle East in Berlin: Urban Spaces and Voices
- MES 1401Strange Powers: Energy in the Modern Middle East
- MES 1450The Archival of Gestures
- MES 1501The Palestinian Revolution, 1948-1982
- MES 1550Non-Jews in the Jewish State: A Study in the Constitution of Otherness
- MES 1591People & Ruins (Studio): Remapping Demolished Spaces & Narratives
- MES 1650The Pen and the Gun: Literature and the Political Body
- MES 1968Approaches to the Middle East (HIST 1968A)
- MES 1970Individual Research Project
- MES 1971Senior Honors Thesis
- MES 1985Understanding Modern Iran
- MES 1990Middle East Studies Pro-Seminar
- MES 1993Middle East Politics
- MES 1994AIslamic Economics
- MES 1995Zionism: Political, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives
- MES 1995BIsrael/Palestine: Holy Land – Profane Spaces
- MES 1996AThe Anglo-Arab Novel
- MES 1997AIslam and Human Rights
- MES 1997BVisualizing the Middle East
- MES 1997CEthnographic Perspectives of Islam: Tradition, Religiosity and Modernity
- MES 1997DThe Politics of Heritage, Tradition and Culture in the Middle East
- MES 1998The Arab Spring
- MES 1999Arab Youth: Movements, Cultures, and Discourses
- MES 1999ACultures of Neoliberalism in the Middle East
- MES 1999BColonialism and Human Rights
- MES 1999CElites in Arab Culture and Society
- MES 1999DAnthropology /Sociology of Development in the Arab World
- MES 1999EDisplacement and Refugees in the Middle East
- MES 2000ADecolonizing the Racialized Female Subject: Black and Indigenous Women’s Self-Making Under Empire
- MES 2002The World “After Gaza”
- MES 2091People & Ruins (Studio): Remapping Demolished Spaces & Narratives
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