Middle East Studies
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Recent News
2019 MES Graduation and Awards Ceremony
Highlights from the 2019 MES Graduation and Awards Ceremony
MES Mourns Death of Professor Michael Bonner
MES Professor Michael Bonner passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on May 24.
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MES LSA Course Guide Subjects:
- ARABIC (Arabic language)
- ARMENIAN (Armenian language)
- HEBREW (Hebrew language)
- MELANG (Ancient languages)
- PERSIAN (Persian language)
- TURKISH (Turkish language)
- MIDEAST (culture courses taught primarily in English)
- topics include: Biblical studies, Islamic studies, Jewish culture and religion, ancient civilizations, and others focused on Middle Eastern culture, literature, linguistics, history, and visual culture
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Events
Sep
16
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Border Walls and Violent Borders
Reece Jones, Professor of Geography and the Environment, University of Hawai'i
2:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
23
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Islamic Law in Movement – Saints, Merchants, and Technocrats: The Diffusion of Malikism in the Islamic West
Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz
2:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
21
CMENAS Colloquium Series. The Reshaping of Persian after the Seventh-Century Arabian Conquest and Colonization
Kevin van Bladel, Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Yale University
2:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
