Spring 2021

Instructor: Gareth Doherty This lecture course views landscape through social and cultural practices. Through people, we will explore landscape’s critical, ethical, and political power to shape the world. The course will provide students with fieldwork...

Instructor: William Granara Examines the roots and issues of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) and its continuing impact on modern Arabic fiction. The syllabus pairs realistic and romanticized representations of family, sectarianism, and gender binaries...

Instructor: Luis Giron Negron Does love have a history? This course will explore a particularly rich, multisecular episode in the literary history of this emotion: the efflorescence and varieties of love poetry, both lyrical and narrative, in Europe and...

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...

Instructor: Tarek Masoud (Previously offered as DPI-440) Explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the...

Instructor: Justine Landau This seminar explores the porous boundaries between fiction and science in premodern Persian literature, with readings selected from major prose and poetic texts from the 10th to the 16th century. Students will engage in the...

Instructor: Arianne Urus Muslims first arrived on the shores of the Americas at the turn of the sixteenth century, yet their long history in the western hemisphere has been largely forgotten. For centuries Islam was the second-most widely practiced...

Instructor: Yunus Kumek This course introduces students to practices of spiritual care from a Muslim Perspective. As we will survey spiritual care practices of different Muslim cultures, our focus will be the relevant application of these practices in...

Instructor: Yasir Fahmy This course will engage in a critical reading and analysis of Hadith Jibril. Also known as Umm Al-Hadith (or the mother of Prophetic narrations), this narration gathers the essential acts and practices that are to be performed...

Instructor: Salma Waheedi Prerequisite: This course is open to students who have taken or are concurrently taking an HLS human rights course. Exam Type: No Exam This course will focus on Islamic law and human rights advocacy in Muslim majority and...