Middle Eastern Studies
2026-2027
95 courses
- MES 1.01Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
- MES 10.10Soundscapes of the Middle East
- MES 12.02Modern Iraq: Society, Politics, and Literature
- MES 12.03Egyptian Culture, Society, and Politics
- MES 12.04America and the Middle East
- MES 12.05Arab Political Thought
- MES 12.06Dictatorship and Dissent: the Middle East in a Global Context
- MES 12.07The Sociology of International Development
- MES 12.08Theories of Democratization and the Case of Iran
- MES 12.09Politics of Israel and Palestine
- MES 12.12Cold War Arab Culture
- MES 12.13Modern Iran
- MES 12.14The Intellectual History of Racism: Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas
- MES 12.15History and Culture of the Arab-Jews
- MES 12.16Post-War Art from the Middle East: The Case of the Lebanese Civil War
- MES 12.171967: The War That Never Ended
- MES 12.18Difficult Conversations on the Middle East
- MES 12.19Covering the Middle East: From News Reporting to Long-Form Non-fiction
- MES 13.12Magic, Miracles, and the Prophet Muhammad
- MES 13.14Shi`i Islam
- MES 15.05A Cultural History of Islam and the Muslim World
- MES 15.08The Art of the Novel: A Masterclass with Hoda Barakat
- MES 15.09Language and Rebellion: Arabic Literature in a Comparative Context
- MES 15.10Film, Fiction and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- MES 15.11The Middle East in Film: Picturing the Past and Present
- MES 15.12History of the Arabic Language
- MES 15.13Sufism as World Literature
- MES 16.05Introduction to Arabic Culture
- MES 16.06Middle Eastern Cultures in the Americas
- MES 16.07The Arabian Nights East and West
- MES 16.08Women and War in Modern Literature and Film
- MES 16.10Special Topics in Arabic Studies
- MES 16.11From Genesis to Seinfeld: Jewish Humor and its Roots
- MES 16.12Language, Politics and Power in the Middle East
- MES 16.15History and Culture of the Jews I: The Classical Period
- MES 16.22Arabic as a Cultural System
- MES 16.23Discovering an Islamic City
- MES 16.24Jerusalem: A Cultural History
- MES 16.30Modern Arabic Fiction
- MES 16.31Palestinian Literature and Cinema
- MES 16.32Themes in Arabic Literature and Culture
- MES 16.35Modern Arabic Literature in Translation: Narrating Tradition, Change and Identity
- MES 16.36Rogues, Riddlers, Lovers, Liars: Love and Death in the Mediterranean
- MES 16.37Love in Translation: Poetics of Desire across Cultures
- MES 16.38Arabic Prison Writing
- MES 16.39Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Comparing Jewish and African Diasporic Literatures
- MES 16.40Mediterranean Poetics
- MES 16.41The Art of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East
- MES 16.42Art in Egypt
- MES 16.43The Thousand and One Nights at the Movies: The History of Film Adaptations of the Arabian Nights
- MES 17.07Radical Islam: Jihadis, Salafīs, and Radical Reformists in the 20th and 21st Century
- MES 17.08The Jewish Jesus
- MES 17.09Modern Islam
- MES 17.10Topics in the Study of Islam
- MES 17.14Jews and Arabs in Israel-Palestine: Past and Present
- MES 17.15The Middle East in the United States: Jews and Arabs in American Society
- MES 17.17Arab Jewish Culture in the Modern Middle East
- MES 17.18Jewish Views of Islam
- MES 17.19The Arab, the Jew, and the Construction of Modernity
- MES 17.20The Qur'an and the Prophet
- MES 17.21Sufism: The Mystical Tradition of Islam
- MES 17.22The Qur'an in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
- MES 17.23Law, Order, and Conquest in Islamic History
- MES 17.24Revelation and Interpretation in Rabbinic, Philosophical, and Mystical Literature
- MES 18.01Contemporary Art in the Middle East
- MES 18.02Mobility in the Early Modern Mediterranean
- MES 18.03Islamic Architecture
- MES 18.04Arts of Islam
- MES 18.05Collecting Islamic Art
- MES 19.02Muslim Feminism
- MES 19.03Arab Feminisms
- MES 19.04Gender and The Modern Middle East and North Africa
- MES 19.05Gender in Islam
- MES 2.01The Making of the Modern Middle East
- MES 2.02Introduction to Early Islamic History
- MES 2.03Introduction to the Modern Middle East and North Africa
- MES 3.02Archaeology of the Middle East
- MES 4.01Energy and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
- MES 4.02History of Technology in the Middle East
- MES 5.01Identity and Representation in the Middle East: Narratives of Loss
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