Current Courses
A growing number of exciting courses, creative and relevant programming, and a steady stream of post-docs and visiting professors offer unparalleled opportunities for MES concentrators who wish to understand this region and to engage with a broad range of issues that affect our world.
Current Courses
A growing number of exciting courses, creative and relevant programming, and a steady stream of post-docs and visiting professors offer unparalleled opportunities for MES concentrators who wish to understand this region and to engage with a broad range of issues that affect our world.
Spring 2026 Courses
MES 1172 Iranian Cinema: History, Aesthetics, and Politics (Mehrdad Babadi) WRIT
MES 1401 Strange Powers: Energy in the Modern Middle East (Gabriel Young)
MES 1591 People & Ruins (Studio): Remapping Demolished Spaces & Narratives (Orwa Switat)
MES 2002 The World “After Gaza” (Adi Ophir)
Languages
Arabic
ARAB 0200: First-Year Arabic (Alla Hassan)
ARAB 0400: Second-Year Arabic (Miled Faiza)
ARAB 0600: Third-Year Arabic (Miled Faiza)
ARAB 0800: Advanced Arabic: Language & Culture through Cinema (Elsa Belmont-Flores)
ARAB 1990 Special Topics in Arabic Language, Literature, and Culture (Elsa Belmont Flores)
Hebrew
HEBR 0200: Elementary Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yahuda)
HEBR 0400: Intermediate Hebrew (Ruth Adler Ben Yahuda)
Persian
PRSN 0200: Basic Persian (Michelle Quay)
PRSN 0400: Intermediate Persian Language and Culture (Michelle Quay)
Turkish
TKSH 0400: Intermediate Turkish (Esra Ozdemir)
Electives
Assyriology
ASYR 1100 Imagining the Gods: Myths and Myth-making in Ancient Mesopotamia (Matthew Rutz) WRIT
ASYR 1725 Scientific Thought in Ancient Iraq (John Steele) WRIT
Classics
CLAS 1230 The Persian Empire and Achaemenid Cultur (Graham Oliver)
Comparative Literature
COLT 0711L The Quran and its Readers (Elias Muhanna) WRIT
COLT 0810I Tales and Talemakers of the Non-Western World (Dore Levy)
COLT 1440P Nationalism and Transnationalism in Film and Fiction (Vangelis Calotychos)
Egyptology
EGYT 1320 Introduction to Classical Hieroglyphic Egyptian Writing and Language (Middle Egyptian II) (Jonathan Russell)
EGYT 1430 Pyramids, Power, Propaganda: Ancient Egyptian History to 1300 BCE (Laurel Bestock) WRIT
EGYT 2610 Introduction to Demotic (Jonathan Russell)
French
- FREN 1710K Frantz Fanon: Critical Theory and Decolonizing Practices between the Caribbean and (North) Africa (Mohamed Amer Meziane) WRIT
History
HIST 1949A Legal History: The Case of the Middle East (Faiz Ahmed)
HIST 1960S North African History: 1800 to Present (Jennifer Johnson)
HIST 1968V America and the Middle East: Histories of Connection and Exchange (Faiz Ahmed)
HIST 1969A Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples I (Omer Bartov) WRIT, RPP
HIST 2982A Orientalism (Elias Muhanna)
International and Public Affairs
IAPA 0300 Costs of War (Stephanie Savell)
IAPA 1804A Iran and the Islamic Revolution (Stephen Kinzer) WRIT
Judaic Studies
- JUDS 1711 History of the State of Israel: 1948 to the Present (Rachel Rojanski) WRIT
Modern Culture and Media
- MCM 1505Z Kiarostami: What Is an Image? (Joan Copjec) WRIT
Religious Studies
RELS 0014 Jesus (Jae Han) WRIT
RELS 1530B Heresy and Orthodoxy in Islamic Thought (Nancy Khalek)
Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
TAPS 0800J Alchemy of Emotions: Middle Eastern Stages, Screens, & Pages (Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari) RPP
Curricular Programs
RPP
HIST 1969A Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples I (Omer Bartov)
TAPS 0800J Alchemy of Emotions: Middle Eastern Stages, Screens, & Pages (Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari)
WRIT
MES 1172 Iranian Cinema: History, Aesthetics, and Politics (Mehrdad Babadi)
ASYR 1100 Imagining the Gods: Myths and Myth-making in Ancient Mesopotamia (Matthew Rutz)
ASYR 1725 Scientific Thought in Ancient Iraq (John Steele)
CLAS 1230 The Persian Empire and Achaemenid Culture (Graham Oliver)
COLT 0711L The Quran and its Readers (Elias Muhanna)
EGYT 1430 Pyramids, Power, Propaganda: Ancient Egyptian History to 1300 BCE (Laurel Bestock)
FREN 1710K Frantz Fanon: Critical Theory and Decolonizing Practices between the Caribbean and (North) Africa (Mohamed Amer Meziane)
HIST 1969A Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples I (Omer Bartov)
IAPA 1804A Iran and the Islamic Revolution (Stephen Kinzer)
JUDS 1711 History of the State of Israel: 1948 to the Present (Rachel Rojanski)
MCM 1505Z Kiarostami: What is an Image? (Joan Copjec)
RELS 0014 Jesus (Jae Han)