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Instructor: Malika Zeghal Meeting approximately every other week, students will establish digital maps and databases based on al-Manar and other periodicals in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt in the Inter War Period. Enrollment only by instructor's permission...

Instructor: Malika Zeghal Meeting approximately every other week, students will establish digital maps and databases based on al-Manar and other periodicals in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt in the Inter War Period. Enrollment only by instructor's permission...

Instructor: Nurhaizatul Jamil This course aims to ethnographically examine the relation among pious subject-formation, race, and gender as they relate to Muslim women’s social media engagements. We will interrogate the ways that Muslim women function as...

Instructor: Shady Nasser Travel is a persistent feature of Arabophone societies through which they have consistently sought to understand and extend their physical, spiritual and imaginative worlds. This course explores the literary tropes of travel and...

Instructor: Teren Sevea What are the anthropological and historical approaches to studying Islam? How do our academic approaches help us engage the question: what is lived Islam? This course begins by considering how ‘Islam’ is an object of academic...

Instructor: Amina Elbendary This course discusses various themes of social and cultural history of the pre-modern Middle East. The rise of Islam, the expansion of the Arab-Muslim umma and the establishment of the Caliphates changed the Middle East. These...

Instructor: Shady Nasser Travel is a persistent feature of Arabophone societies through which they have consistently sought to understand and extend their physical, spiritual and imaginative worlds. This course explores the literary tropes of travel and...

Instructor: Shady Nasser A class designed for advanced students of Arabic (at least 4 years of formal Arabic training). We study the grammar manual of al-kafiya by Ibn al-Hajib along with al-Astarabadhi’s commentary. Four years of Arabic or equivalent...

Instructor: Teren Sevea What are the academic approaches to studying Islam? How do our academic approaches help us engage the question: what is Islam? This course begins by considering how 'Islam' is an object of academic inquiry but remains primarily...

Instructor: Melani Cammett A research seminar covering social science literature on the Middle East and major debates in comparative politics of the region. Emphasis placed on methods of analysis, theory-building and testing, and the formation of research...