Modern Middle East Languages

Secondary concentration offers new opportunity for undergraduate study of the Middle East

May 13, 2011

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to announce that the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) will offer, for the first time this fall, a secondary concentration in Middle East studies. This is the first undergraduate program at Harvard focused specifically on the modern Middle East, an area of prolonged and growing student interest. Though offered through NELC, the field will allow students to take courses from several departments, including Anthropology, History, History of Art and Architecture, and Government. Along with four elective courses, a “...

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Fanta-Vagenshtein

Hebrew language program hosts dinner for Dr. Yarden Fanta-Vagenshtein

December 20, 2010

On November 30th the Modern Hebrew program at Harvard hosted an “Israeli Dinner” that was funded by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Harvard Hillel. All of the students in the program were present along with guests from the Harvard community, about 50 people in total.

The guest of honor was Dr. Yarden Fanta-Vagenshtein. Dr. Fanta-Vagenshtein was born in a village in Ethiopia. It took her and her family approximately one year to arrive in Israel after a long journey through the Sudan desert. She left Ethiopia at the age of 11, never having been to school (she...

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2010 graduate and undergraduate summer funding opportunities from CMES

December 2, 2009

CMES is pleased to announce that it will offer three different awards for Summer 2010 The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to announce that it will offer three different awards for Summer 2010: undergraduate awards for research in Israel and Arabic language study in the Middle East, and an award open to graduate and undergraduate students for research and other scholarly projects in Morocco. For more information, and details on how to apply, please visit...

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Congratulations to our CASA fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year!

April 11, 2007

CMES and the Arabic program at Harvard are delighted to congratulate three students of Arabic who recently took the entrance exam for the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), Egypt, and were awarded full-year and summer fellowships.

Dan Stolz will be a full-year fellow at CASA. Dan is a senior at Harvard College (Cabot House) concentrating in History and NELC. After CASA he hopes to enter a graduate program in modern Middle East history. His main interest is in intellectual history of the Arab world, particularly of modern Egypt. He spent the fall of '05 in Cairo...

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