#  Middle East-related Courses 

 



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**Please note:**

- All listings are subject to change, and this list may not be comprehensive.
- Consult the online course catalog for each school for up-to-date course information including locations and new and additional offerings, and to double-check course times.
- Courses at other schools often start earlier than GSAS courses. Please check with those schools for specific start times. Courses offered outside FAS and the Divinity School also require cross registration.
- Courses highlighted in **GREEN** satisfy the premodern ME History and Culture requirement for the AM degree.
- Courses highlighted in **BLUE** satisfy the modern ME History requirement for the AM degree.
- Courses marked with an **\*ASTERISK** are seminar courses.
- Courses in the “Electives of Interest” section do **NOT** satisfy the Middle East-related CMES requirement. They are included due to faculty or content that may be relevant to your interests. You are welcome to enroll in these courses as an elective.

## FAS/GSAS

**\*ARABIC 246R. Sicily, Spain (al-Andalus), and Maghreb in the Arab Mediterranean: Seminar**  
Granara  
W 12:45-2:45

**COMPLIT 114. Mysticism and Literature**  
Giron Negron  
W 9:00-11:45

**GENED 1008. Power and Identity in the Middle East**  
Cammett  
T/TH 1:30-2:45

**GOV 1106. The Political Economy of Israel**  
Krampf  
T/TH 1:30-2:45

**HAA 12Y. Genghis Khan and his Successors: Art in the Wake of the Mongol Conquests**  
Roxburgh  
M/W 1:30-2:45

**\*HAA 126V. Arts, Artifacts, Architecture: Ottoman Visual and Material Cultures between East and West**  
Necipoglu  
T 12:00-2:45

**\*HAA 223M. A Connected Architectural and Urban History of Early Modern Empire: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals**  
Necipoglu  
TH 3:00-5:45

**\*HAA 224M. Drawing in the Islamic Lands**  
Roxburgh  
TH 9:00-11:45

**HIST 1009. The Making of the Modern Middle East**  
Bsheer  
T/TH 10:30-11:45

**HIST 1018. Coffee and the Nighttime: History and Politics, 1400-2020**  
Kafadar  
T/TH 12:00-1:15

**HIST 1039. First Empires: Power and Propaganda in the Ancient World**  
Pizzorno  
M/W 3:00-4:15

**\*HIST 2004. Understanding Political Economy: The View from the Middle East and South Asia**  
Bsheer  
TH 12:45-2:45  
Note: Permission required

**\*HIST 2884. Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History**  
Kafadar  
W 3:00-5:45

**ISLAMCIV 110. Major Works of Islamic Civilizations**  
El-Rouayheb  
T 12:00-2:45

**ISLAMCIV 111. Transforming Tradition: Islamic Education in the Modern Muslim World**  
Elston  
T/TH 10:30-11:45

**JEWISHST 152. Renaissance and Revolution: Judaism, Zionism, and Israel**  
TBA  
T 9:00-11:45

**\*MES 299B. Master's Thesis—Middle Eastern Studies**  
Granara TBA  
Note: Permission required; for AM thesis writers only

**MODMDEST 121. Revolutions in the Modern History of the Middle East**  
Samir Seikaly  
W/F 10:30-11:45  
Note: Permission required

**\*MODMDEST 214. The Arab Nadha**  
Samir Seikaly  
TH 3:00-5:45  
Note: Permission required; 3 years Arabic required

**\*RELIGION 2800. The Emergence of Islam: Contours and Controversies**  
Goudarzi  
W 3:00-5:00

## HDS

**\*HDS 1834. Archaeology and History of Israel/Palestine from the Second Temple to the Early Islamic Period**  
Bazzana  
TH 3:00-4:59

**HDS 3059. Islam and the Age of Democracy: Origins, Continuity, and Change**  
Abdur-Rashid  
M/W 12:00-1:15

## HKS

**IGA 655. Middle Eastern Politics and Policy**  
Masoud  
T/TH 1:30-2:45

**DPI 398. Islam and the Age of Democracy: Origins, Continuity, and Change**  
Abdur-Rashid  
M/W 12:00-1:15

## HLS

**HLS 2358. Introduction to Islamic Law**  
Stilt  
TH/F 10:45-12:15  
Note: 3 units

**HLS 3122. Law, Human Rights, and Social Justice in Israel and Palestine**  
Waheedi  
W 4:15-6:15  
Note: 1 unit reading group

## MIT

**MIT SP.258. MISTI: Middle East Cross-Border Development and Leadership**  
Dolev  
TBA

**\*MIT 4.612. Islamic Architecture and the Environment**  
Gupta  
TBA  
Note: Permission required

**\*MIT 4.617. Topics in Islamic Urban History**  
Rabbat  
TBA  
Note: Permission required

**MIT 3.993. Archaeology of the Middle East**  
Price  
TBA

**MIT 21H.161. The Modern Middle East**  
Alimagham  
TBA

**MIT 21H.330. Ancient Empires: Persians and Greeks in Antiquity**  
Williams Forte  
TBA

**MIT 21H.365. Minorities and Majorities in the Middle East**  
Ekmekcioglu  
TBA

## Tufts

**EIB B227. Islamic Banking and Finance**  
Warde  
M/W 12:00-1:20

## Language Courses

**ARABIC AB 001. Elementary Arabic II**  
Madi  
M-F 9:00-10:00

**ARABIC AB 002. Elementary Arabic II**  
Cozzens  
M-F 10:30-11-30

**ARABIC AB 003. Elementary Arabic II**  
Cozzens  
M-F 12:00-1:00

**ARABIC AB 004. Elementary Arabic II**  
TBA  
M-F 1:30-2:30

**ARABIC BB 001. Intermediate Arabic II**  
Halaby  
M-TH 9:00-10:15

**ARABIC BB 002. Intermediate Arabic II**  
Halaby  
M-TH 10:30-11:45

**ARABIC BB 003. Intermediate Arabic II**  
TBA  
M-TH 12:00-1:15

**ARABIC 130B. Upper-Level Classical Arabic II**  
Granara  
M/W/F 9:00-10:00

**ARABIC 131B 001. Upper-Level Modern Arabic II**  
Madi  
M-TH 10:30-11:45

**ARABIC 131B 002. Upper-Level Modern Arabic II**  
Madi  
M-TH 12:00-1:15

**ARABIC 241BR. Advanced Modern Arabic Bridge: Language, Culture, and Culture II**  
Habib  
T/TH 3:00-4:15

**ARABIC 150R. Themes in Arabic Literature**  
Nasser  
M/W 1:30-2:45

**ARABIC 242BR. Arabic Short Story between Art and Politics**  
Habib  
W 3:00-5:00

**\*ARABIC 246R. Sicily, Spain (al-Andalus), and Maghreb in the Arab Mediterranean: Seminar**  
Granara  
W 12:45-2:45

**ARABIC 259. Introduction to Medieval Arabic Rhetoric**  
Nasser and El-Rouayheb  
M 3:00-5:45

**ARMEN AB. Elementary Modern Western Armenian II**  
Gulesserian  
M-TH 3:00-4:15

**ARMEN BB. Intermediate Modern Western Armenian II**  
Gulesserian  
M-TH 1:30-2:45

**ARMEN CA. Advanced Modern Western Armenian**  
Gulesserian  
T/TH 4:30-5:45

**MOD-HEB BB. Elementary Modern Hebrew II**  
Aharony  
M-F 9:00-10:15

**MOD-HEB 120B. Intermediate Modern Hebrew II**  
Aharony  
M-F 10:30-11-45

**MOD-HEB 130B. Advanced Modern Hebrew**  
Aharony  
M/F 12:00-1:15

**PERSIAN AB. Elementary Persian II**  
Ebrahimian  
M-F 9:00-10:00

**PERSIAN BB. Intermediate Persian II**  
Ebrahimian  
M-F 10:30-11:30

**PERSIAN 130BR. Advanced Persian II**  
Ebrahimian  
M/W 3:00-4:15

**TURKISH AB. Elementary Modern Turkish II**  
Demir  
M-F 10:30-11:45

**TURKISH 120B. Intermediate Modern Turkish II**  
Demir  
M/W/TH/F 9:00-10:15

**TURKISH 130B. Advanced Modern Turkish II**  
Taskomur  
M/W 12:00-2:00

**TURKISH 140B. Introduction to Ottoman Turkish II**  
Taskomur  
M/W 3:00-5:00

**TURKISH 150B. Advanced Ottoman Turkish II**  
Taskomur  
M/W 9:00-11:00

**TURKISH 200. Bureaucracy and Empire: Introduction to Ottoman Archival Study**  
Taskomur  
F 3:00-5:45

## Electives of Interest

**ANTHRO 2695. Landscape Fieldwork: People, Politics, Practices**  
Doherty  
F 3:00-5:45

**COMPLIT 171. Counter-Imperialism and Asian-African Literatures**  
Lienau  
F 3:00-5:45

**\*EMR 150. Meeting Asian/Arab American Studies**  
Yalzadeh  
W 12:00-2:45

**GENED 1088. The Crusades and the Making of East and West**  
Angelov  
M/W 1:30-2:45

**GOV 1094. The Jewish Political Tradition**  
Nelson  
M/W 10:30-11:45

**HAA 147P. Popular Beliefs and the Formation of Pilgrimage Sites in the Mediterranean**  
Kalavrezou  
TH 12:00-2:45

**HIST 14Z. Modern Iran: From Empires and Revolutions to the Everyday**  
Cheves  
W 9:45-11:45  
Note: Undergraduate seminar

**HIST 1217. US Foreign Policy in a Global Age**  
Logevall  
M/W 1:30-2:45  
Note: Also offered at HKS as IGA 217

**HLS 2126. International Human Rights**  
Kalpouzos  
T/W 4:30-6:00

**HDS 3081. God's Nations: Nation Religion and Modernity**  
Cesari  
W 1:00-2:59  
Note: HDS permission required

**HDS 3067. Muslim Tiktok, #BLACKOUTEID, IG Activism: Muslim Women Navigating Social Media**  
Jamil  
TH 6:00-7:59  
Note: HDS permission required

**HDS 3068. Introduction to Zoroastrianism**  
Ashurov  
M/W 9:00-10:15  
Note: HDS permission required

**\*HDS 3335. Learning in Context: Narratives of Displacement and Belonging in Israel/Palestine**  
Omer  
TBA  
Note: HDS permission required; apply by Jan 9

**HDS 3627. Multisensory Religion: Rethinking Islam**  
Asani  
T/TH 12:00-1:15  
Note: Also offered as GENED 1087

**IGA 282. Leading the National Security Enterprise**  
Carter  
M/W 12:00-1:15

**ISLAMCIV 179. Critical Perspectives on the Dynamics and Development of Islam in Africa**  
Kane  
TH 12:00-1:59

**ISLAMCIV 241R. Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam**  
Asani  
TBA