MES - Middle Eastern Studies

MES 1.01 Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
MES 2.01 The Making of the Modern Middle East
MES 2.02 Introduction to Early Islamic History
MES 2.03 Introduction to the Modern Middle East and North Africa
MES 3.02 Archaeology of the Middle East
MES 4.01 Energy and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
MES 4.02 History of Technology in the Middle East
MES 5.01 Identity and Representation in the Middle East: Narratives of Loss
MES 5.02 Introduction to Hebraic and Israeli Culture
MES 6.02 An Introduction to Islam
MES 7.01 Arab Revolutions: Dependency, Despotism and the Struggle for Democracy
MES 7.03 Jerusalem: Vision and Reality
MES 8.01 Introduction to Middle East Politics
MES 9.01 Islam and Medicine from the Medieval to Modern Eras
MES 9.02 Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature
MES 10.10 Soundscapes of the Middle East
MES 12.02 Modern Iraq: Society, Politics, and Literature
MES 12.03 Egyptian Culture, Society, and Politics
MES 12.04 America and the Middle East
MES 12.05 Arab Political Thought
MES 12.06 Dictatorship and Dissent: the Middle East in a Global Context
MES 12.07 The Sociology of International Development
MES 12.08 Theories of Democratization and the Case of Iran
MES 12.09 Politics of Israel and Palestine
MES 12.12 Cold War Arab Culture
MES 12.13 Modern Iran
MES 12.14 The Intellectual History of Racism: Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas
MES 12.15 History and Culture of the Arab-Jews
MES 12.16 Post-War Art from the Middle East: The Case of the Lebanese Civil War
MES 12.17 1967: The War That Never Ended
MES 12.18 Difficult Conversations on the Middle East
MES 13.12 Magic, Miracles, and the Prophet Muhammad
MES 13.14 Shi`i Islam
MES 15.08 The Art of the Novel: A Masterclass with Hoda Barakat
MES 15.09 Language and Rebellion: Arabic Literature in a Comparative Context
MES 15.10 Film, Fiction and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
MES 15.11 The Middle East in Film: Picturing the Past and Present
MES 15.12 History of the Arabic Language
MES 15.13 Sufism as World Literature
MES 16.05 Introduction to Arabic Culture
MES 16.06 Middle Eastern Cultures in the Americas
MES 16.07 The Arabian Nights East and West
MES 16.08 Women and War in Modern Literature and Film
MES 16.10 Special Topics in Arabic Studies
MES 16.11 From Genesis to Seinfeld: Jewish Humor and its Roots
MES 16.12 Language, Politics and Power in the Middle East
MES 16.15 History and Culture of the Jews I: The Classical Period
MES 16.22 Arabic as a Cultural System
MES 16.23 Discovering an Islamic City
MES 16.24 Jerusalem: A Cultural History
MES 16.30 Modern Arabic Fiction
MES 16.31 Palestinian Literature and Cinema
MES 16.32 Themes in Arabic Literature and Culture
MES 16.35 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation: Narrating Tradition, Change and Identity
MES 16.36 Rogues, Riddlers, Lovers, Liars: Love and Death in the Mediterranean
MES 16.37 Love in Translation: Poetics of Desire across Cultures
MES 16.38 Arabic Prison Writing
MES 16.39 Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Comparing Jewish and African Diasporic Literatures
MES 16.40 Mediterranean Poetics
MES 16.41 The Art of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East
MES 16.42 Art in Egypt
MES 16.43 The Thousand and One Nights at the Movies: The History of Film Adaptations of the Arabian Nights
MES 17.07 Radical Islam: Jihadis, Salafīs, and Radical Reformists in the 20th and 21st Century
MES 17.08 The Jewish Jesus
MES 17.09 Modern Islam
MES 17.10 Topics in the Study of Islam
MES 17.14 Jews and Arabs in Israel-Palestine: Past and Present
MES 17.15 The Middle East in the United States: Jews and Arabs in American Society
MES 17.17 Arab Jewish Culture in the Modern Middle East
MES 17.18 Jewish Views of Islam
MES 17.19 The Arab, the Jew, and the Construction of Modernity
MES 17.20 The Qur'an and the Prophet
MES 17.21 Sufism: The Mystical Tradition of Islam
MES 17.22 The Qur'an in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
MES 18.01 Unmaking HIstory: Contemporary Art in the Middle East
MES 18.02 Mobility in the Early Modern Mediterranean
MES 18.03 Islamic Architecture
MES 18.04 Arts of Islam
MES 18.05 Collecting Islamic Art
MES 19.02 Muslim Feminism
MES 19.03 Arab Feminisms
MES 19.04 Gender and The Modern Middle East and North Africa
MES 19.05 Gender in Islam
MES 81.01 Arab Theatre
MES 81.02 The New Arabic Novel
MES 81.03 Images of the West in the Arabic Novel
MES 81.04 Curses, Compliments, and Secrets: Verbal Behavior in the Middle East
MES 85 Independent Research
MES 87 Honors Thesis
MES 88 Senior Honors Thesis part 1
MES 89 Senior Honors Thesis part 2