Spring 2013 Middle East-related courses at Harvard

CMES is pleased to announce that the Spring 2013 Harvard Middle East–related course list is now available. Please click here to download. This list includes a wide variety of courses related to the Middle East from across Harvard, as well as MIT and the Fletcher School at Tufts.

Courses being offered for the first time this semester include:

  • Ancient Near East 230 – Ethnicity and Boundary Maintenance in Ancient Israel of the Iron I Period: Israelites, Philistines and Canaanites, Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University)
  • Arabic 132 – Advanced Composition and Grammar Review, Nevenka Korica Sullivan
  • Arabic 172 – Urban Landscapes: The City and Contemporary Arabic Literature and Culture, Salim Tamari (Birzeit University)
  • Islamic Civilizations 170 – Islam, Modernity and Politics, Ousmane Kane
  • Islamic Civilizations 175 – Islam in African History, Ousmane Kane
  • Islamic Civilizations 221 – Does the Fiqh Know a Concept of Natural Law? Baber Johansen
  • Islamic Civilizations 225 – Islam, Metaphor, Meaning, M. Shahab Ahmed
  • The Modern Middle East 115 – The Arab-Zionist conflict, 1882-1948, Benny Morris
  • The Modern Middle East 215 – The Arab-Israeli War of 1948, Benny Morris
  • The Modern Middle East 220 – The Spring of 2011 in the Middle East, Baber Johansen
  • History 88c – Modern Iraq in the Media and in Historical Perspective, Arbella Bet-Shlimon
  • Religion 1840 – Private, Public and Islam, M. Shahab Ahmed
  • Religion 1860 – The Word(s) of the Prophet: Prophetic Traditions through History, Ahmed Ragab
  • DPI-443: Politics of the Arab Spring, Ellis Goldberg [offered by the Harvard Kennedy School]
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