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MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES 

 

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Spotlight on some Spring 2024 courses

 
ARAB 302    Advanced Arabic
 
MES/REL 271/371    Love and Longing in Middle Eastern and Iranian Literature and Film
 

CPLT 275/3755    Translation and the Multilingual World 

Related Courses for Credit toward the Major

Courses with an asterisk (*) also require the permission of the instructor if the course is to be counted for Middle Eastern Studies.

ARAB/MES 310 Resistance & Dissent North Africa & Middle East

ARTH 203 Iraq's Antiquities, Then and Now

ARTH 241 Egyptian and Nubian Art and Archaeology

ARTH 247 Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture

CLCV 240/REL 240 Romans, Jews, and Christians in the Roman Empire

CPLT 275 Translation and the Multilingual World (if major work done in Arabic)

CPLT/HIST/MES 364 Seminar: Film and Narratives of Social Change in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

HIST/SAS 266 The Indian Ocean as African, Arab, and South Asian History

HIST 284 The Middle East in Modern History

HIST/MES 293 Changing Gender Constructions in the Modern Middle East

HIST 365/MES 368 Seminar: From Casasblanca to Cape Town: African Popular and Public Cultures

HIST/MES 366 Seminar: 'Greater Syria' under Ottoman and European Colonial Rule, c. 1850-1950

HIST/SAS 367 The Indian Ocean as African, Arab, and South Asian History

HIST/MES 369 Seminar: Histories of "Ethnic" and "Religious" Violence

JWST/REL 104 Study of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 

MES/REL 260 Religion and Culture in Muslim Societies

MES/REL 261 Cities in the Islamic World

MES/REL 262 The Formation of the Islamic Tradition

MES/REL 263 Islam in the Modern World

MES/REL 267 Muslim Ethics

MES 270H Morocco: Language and Culture (Wintersession in Morocco)

MES/REL 271 Love and Longing in Middle Eastern and Iranian Literature and Film

MES 312 From The Blue Caftan to Harraga: North African Film & Fiction As Inclusive Spaces of Representation

MES/REL 347 Muslim Ethics

MES 358/PEAC 358/POL2 359 Palestinian Israeli Peace Prospects

MES/REL 359 Seminar: Power, Authority and Legitimacy in Muslim Societies

MES/REL 361 Seminar: Studying Islam and the Middle East

MES/REL 363 Seminar: Law and Community in Muslim Societies

MES/REL 365 Cities in the Islamic World

MES/REL 367 Seminar: Muslim Travelers

MES/REL 371 Love and Longing in Middle Eastern and Iranian Literature and Film

PEAC/POL2 217 Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

PEAC/REL 330 Seminar: Religion and Violence*

REL 105 Study of the New Testament

REL 242 Archaeology of the Biblical World

REL 243 Women in the Biblical World

REL 244 Jerusalem: The Holy City

REL 268 Religion and Culture in Egypt

REL 269 Religion and Culture in Iran

REL 270 Religions of the Silk Road

REL 342 Archaeology of the Biblical World

REL 345 Seminar: Enslavement and the Bible

REL 348 Religion and Culture in Egypt

REL 364 Seminar: Sufism: Islamic Mysticism

SPAN 252* The Making of Spain: Christians, Jews, and Moslems

 

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