UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Program
Faculty of Oriental Studies
Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Hebrew Studies
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Egyptology

Degrees Offered
Faculty of Oriental Studies :
BA
Mphil
Mlitt
PhD

Middle East Languages
Arabic (Classical, Modern)
Persian
Hebrew
Aramaic
Syriac

Courses
The Faculty of Oriental Studies offers numerous courses on both the modern and ancient history, culture and civilizations of the Middle East. Additional courses on the Middle East are offered by the Faculties of Economics, History, Divinity and International Studies

Faculty  
T. Khalidi (Arabic, literature)
J. Montgomery (Arabic, literature)
B. Musallam (Arabic, history)
K. Bennison (Arabic, history)
N. Auty (Arabic, language)
R. Harris (Arabic, language)
C. Melville (Persian, literature and history)
G. Van den Berg (Persian, literature)
R. Gordon (Hebrew)
R. Domb (Modern Hebrew)
G. Khan (Hebrew)
J. Snaith (Hebrew, Aramaic)

Director
T. Khalidi

Special Features
The Centre for Middle Eastern Studies has a substantial modern library on the history, geography, economics, oil problems, and sociology of the Middle East, including all the significant periodicals published in and about the Middle East. There are close links with the Research and Documentation Centre in Abu Dhabi as well as with Research Centres in Kuwait, Muscat, and Sana'a. Students, scholars and visitors from the Arab World are welcomed at the Centre. The Journal Arabian Studies, the only interdisciplinary journal dealing with the peninsula as a whole, is published by the Middle East Centre.  Additional lectures and seminars, often by visiting speakers, are organized by the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and the Centre for Hebrew Studies.

Inquiries
The Secretary
Faculty of Oriental Studies
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA, England
United Kingdom
441223/335106
fax441223-335110
oriental-mes-admin@lists.com.ac.uk
www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/oriental/cmes.htm
www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/
www.cam.ac.uk

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 08, 2004