Center for Middle East Studies
Spring 2026
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) [Graduate Students register for MES 2091]
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 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)
- BHBR 0200 Readings in Biblical Hebrew (Timothy Gilmartin)
Persian
- PRSN 0200: Basic Persian (Michelle Quay)
- PRSN 0400: Intermediate Persian Language and Culture (Michelle Quay)
- PRSN 2980: Reading and Research (TBD)
Turkish
- TKSH 0400: Intermediate Turkish (Esra Ozdemir)
Electives
Anthropology
- ANTH 1225 Gendering Migration and Diasporas (Nadje Al-Ali) RPP
Archaeology
- ARCH 1434/UNIV 1003 Jerusalem: Jews, Christians, Muslims (Katharina Galor)
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 Culture (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 0813A The Environment in Modern Arabic Literature (Dima Nasser)
- COLT 1440P Nationalism and Transnationalism in Film and Fiction (Vangelis Calotychos)
- COLT 1441B Embodiments of the Poetic Image (Dima Nasser)
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)
History of Art and Architecture
- HIAA 1051 Codicology Compared (Gwendolyn Collaço)
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)
Curricular Programs
RPP
- HIST 1969A Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples I (Omer Bartov)
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)