AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
Beirut, Lebanon

Program
Departments:
-Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
-Economics
-English
-History and Archaeology
-Philosophy
-Political Studies and Public Administration
-Social and Behavioral Sciences
Center for Arab and Middle East Studies
Program in General Agriculture

Degrees Offered
BA
MA

Middle East Languages
Arabic (Advanced)
Classical Persian (Introductory)
Biblical Hebrew (Introductory)

Courses
Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
Undergraduate
Readings in Arabic Heritage
Studies in Arabic Literature and Language
Studies in the Sciences of the Arabic Language
Advanced Studies in Arabic Grammar
Background to the Study of Classical Arabic Literature
Pre-Islamic Poetry
Umayyad Poetry
Abbasid Poetry
Andalusian Literature
Koranic Studies
Modern Arabic Poetry I, II
Modern Arabic Prose (The Novel)
Modern Arabic Prose (The Drama)
Literary Criticism
Classical Arabic Prose
Background to the Study of Modern Arabic Literature
Arabic Classical Folk Literature
Sufi Literature
Graduate
Seminar in Classical Arabic Literature
Seminar in an Epoch, Trend or Book in Classical Arabic Literature
Seminar in Koranic Studies
Seminar in the Influence of European Literary Criticism on Modern Arabic Literary Criticism
Seminar in Arabic Sources
Seminar in Folk Literature
Seminar in Comparative Literature
Seminar in Advanced Semitics or Linguistics (PhD in Arabic temporarily frozen)

Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in (MA program only) and Modern Middle East Studies 

Summer Intensive Arabic

Economics
20th Century Economic Thought
Economics of the Middle East
Economic History
Comparative Economic Systems
International Trade Theory; International Economic Policy
The Economics of Petroleum
plus additional courses

English
East and West, Selected Topics: Khalil Gibran and His Contemporaries
Advanced Translation Theory and Practice: Arabic into English

History and Archaeology
Introduction to the Modern History of the Arabs
The Rise and Development of Islam
History of the Arabs
History of the Near East from 610-1071 AD
History of the Near East from 1071-1517 AD
History of the Arabs to 632 AD
History of the Arabs from 632-750 AD
History of the Arabs from 750-950 AD
History of the Arabs from 950-1258 AD
Persia and Turkey to 1800 AD
History of Persia and Turkey in the 19th and 20th Centuries
History of the Arab East and North Africa from 1516-1798
History of the Arab East and North Africa from 1798-1920
History of the Arab East and North Africa from 1914-1939
History of the Arab East and North Africa since 1939
History of Lebanon from 634-1920 AD
History of North Africa and Spain in the Middle Ages
Senior Seminar in Arab and Near East History
Graduate Seminar in Arab and Near East History
Arab Historians I, II
Social and Intellectual History of the Arabs I, II
Social and Economic History of the Middle East I, II
Special Topics in Middle East History
Archaeological Methodology
The Old Stone Age (up to 10,000 BC)
The New Stone Age (10th-4th Millennia BC)
Near East in the Bronze and Iron Ages (3rd-1st Millennia BC)
History of Ancient Egypt
Archaeology of the Greek World
Hellenistic and Roman Archaeology
The Greek World and the Near East
The Near East in the Roman and Early Byzantine Ages
Ancient Near Eastern Religions
Field Work in Archaeology
Problems in Archaeology (PhD in Arab History temporarily frozen)

Philosophy
History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Islamic Philosophy
The Medieval Synthesis
Topics in Classical Islamic Philosophy
Recent Arab and Islamic Thought

Political Studies and Public Administration
Undergraduate
Islamic Political Thought I, II
Survey of Comparative Governments
Public International Law
International Organization
Communism and the Arab World
Arab-Western Relations since World War I
Modern Governments of the Middle East
Modern Islamic Political Institutions
Comparative Public Administration (Middle Eastern)
Public Administration in Lebanon
Senior Seminar in Arab Political Processes
plus additional courses
Graduate
International Politics and the Arab World
Modern Islamic and Arab Political Philosophy
Seminar in International and Regional Organization
Seminar in Governmental Institutions and Processes
Seminar in Modern Governments of the Middle East
Institutional Foundations of Middle Eastern Society
Modernization and Political Change in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Political Trends in the Arab World
plus additional courses 

Social and Behavioral Sciences
Undergraduate
Arab Culture and Society
The Sociology of the Arab World
Urbanization
Population Studies
Political Anthropology
Social and Cultural Change
Religion and Society
Tribal and Peasant Systems
Comparative Study of Ethnicity
Mass Media and Society
Communication Institutions
Intercultural Communication
plus additional courses
Graduate
Seminar in Middle Eastern Culture/Society
Problems of Social Change and Development
Seminar in General Ethnology

courses are offered annually

Faculty
Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
S. Agha
R. Baalbaki
S. Makarem
N. Naimy

Center for Arab and Middle East Studies
N. el-Cheikh
R. Hanna

Economics
I. Chatila
N. Khalaf
S. Makdisi
U. Ramadan
G. Sirhan
G. Yusuf 

English
J. M. Cook
S. Ghaly
C. Nassar
K. Shaaban 

History and Archaeology
A. Abu-Husayn
T. Khalidi
H. Sader
K. Salibi
H. Seeden
S. Seikaly 

Philosophy
S. Agha
K. Ferguson
E. Kassab
M. Khalidi
W. Nasr 

Political Studies and Public Administration
R. Antoun
N. Hamzeh
J. Harik
A. Iskandar
H. Khashan
F. Khazen
M. Kisirwani
H. Krayem
K. Nakib
M. Nehme 
M. Palmer
P. Salem

Social and Behavioral Sciences
I. Azzam
N. Beyhum
N. Dajani
L. Diab
M. Faou
S. Khalafr
P. Nabti 

Degree Requirements
MA: 21 graduate credits after the Bachelor's Degree, Comprehensive Examination, Thesis
PhD: 15 credits beyond the Master's Degree, Comprehensive Examination, Thesis, and proficiency in one or more foreign languages

Scholarships/Graduate Support
Scholarship grants, scholarship loans, graduate assistantships, student employment, emergency loans (applications to Office of Student Services by March for following academic year)

Special Features
Comprehensive library system; University Museums - of Archaeology of the Near East and Geology; Post Herbarium (flora of the Eastern Mediterranean, biological collection); University Computer Center; University Hospital

Additional Information
The American University of Beirut is a private, non-sectarian institution which functions under a charter from the State of New York

Inquiries
Lynn Mahoney
Associate Director of Communications
American University of Beirut
850 Third Avenue, 18^th. Floor
New York NY 10022-6297
212-583-7600
fax 212-583-7651
mahoney@aub.edu
www.aub.edu.lb

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 08, 2004