Program
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
John F Kennedy School of Government (separate entry)
Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program (separate entry)

Degrees Offered
AM, PhD

Middle East Languages
Arabic (Beginning to Advanced: Classical, Modern)
Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
Moroccan Colloquial Arabic
Turkish (Beginning to Advanced: Ottoman, Old Turkish, Modern)
Persian (Beginning to Advanced: Classical, Modern)
Hebrew (Beginning to Advanced: Biblical, Modern)
Akkadian (Elementary to Advanced)
Urdu (Beginning to Advanced)
Sumerian
Aramaic
Armenian (Classical, Modern)
Classical Ethiopic
Ugaritic
Classical Georgian
Old Uighur
Uzbek
Kurdish
Coptic
Yiddish

Courses
Anthropology
Rediscovering Past Societies: An Introduction to Archaeology
Old World Archaeology (Europe, Asia, and Africa)
Asiatic Archaeology and Ethnography
Scientific Archaeology
Archaeology and Ethnography of the Near and Middle East
The Charisma of Saints, and the Cults of Relics, Amulets, Images, and Shrines
Colonialism, Nationalism, and Archaeology

Comparative Literature
Literature and Politics: The Case of Zionism

Core Curriculum: Foreign Cultures
Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East, Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies

Core Curriculum: Historical Study
The Making and Remaking of the Modern Middle East
The Crusades

Core Curriculum: Literature and Arts
The Book of Job and the Joban Tradition
The Images of Alexander the Great
The Bible and Its Interpreters

Core Curriculum: Social Analysis
Culture, Illness, and Healing: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Medicine in Society
Religion and Modernization: Cultural Revolutions and Secularism
Urban Revolutions: Archaeology and the Investigation of Early States
Government
Introduction to Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics of the Middle East
Political Economy of Development
The Causes and Prevention of War
Terrorist Movements in International Relations
International Politics in the Middle East

History
Major Themes in Ancient and Medieval History
The Making and Remaking of the Modern Middle East
Major Themes in World History: Imperialism, Colonial Nationalism, and Independence in the Middle East, Africa, and India
The Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain
Byzantine Civilization
Byzantine Civilization-1453
Jews in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Emergence of Israel
Balkan Paths to Nationhood
History of the Near East -1055
Ottoman State and Society II (1550-1920)
The Middle East and Modernity: Conference Course
Introduction to Archival Research in Ottoman History: Proseminar
Problems in Jewish Intellectual History: Seminar
Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History: Seminar
Topics in Islamic History
Debates in the Economic and Social History of the Middle East: Seminar
Debates in the Political and Ideological History of the Middle East: Seminar
Topics in the History of Central Asia: Proseminar
The Mediterranean World: 336-31 BC
Jewish History in the Second and Post-Temple Period
Topics in Byzantine History
The Modern Balkans
Representing the Other
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: History and Historiography
The History of Demographic Transition in the Middle East
History of the Near East: 1055-1517
Religion, Law and Misplaced Secularity
Comparative Colonialism
International History

History of Art & Architecture
Introduction to Early Islamic Art and Architecture (650-1250)
Manuscript Making: Painting and the Arts of the Islamic Book (1250-1572): Proseminar
Critical Issues in Islamic Art and Architecture
Collecting Culture: Albums of the Timurid, Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties: Seminar
Landmarks of Word Architecture
Early Islamic Art and Architecture (650-1250)
Islamic Pilgrimage
Cross-Cultural Aesthetics
The Art of the Court of Constantinople
Persian Painting: Between Figuration and Abstraction
Assyrian Reliefs and the Visual Program of Assyrian Palace Design

History of Science
Science, Medicine and Imperialism

Linguistics
Advanced Hittite
Indo-European Morphology: Seminar

Literature
Colonial and Post-Colonial Spaces: France and North Africa
The Holocaust and Problems of Representation

Music
Ethnomusicology: Seminar

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Elementary Akkadian
Akkadian Historical Texts
Akkadian Legal and Economic Texts
Akkadian Myths and Epics
Neo-Babylonian Archival Texts
Peripheral Akkadian
Akkadian Historical Grammar and Dialectology
Akkadian Language and Literature
Myth and Mythmaking in the Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern World
Jewish Apocalypticism
Messianism, Mysticism and Magic in Modern Jewish Literature
History of the Ancient Near East: Syria-Palestine (up to Alexander the Great)
Urban Revolutions: Archaeology and the Investigation of Early States
History and Archaeology: Seminar
Archaeology of the Levant (Syria-Palestine)
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament
History of the Study of the Hebrew Bible: From the Renaissance to the Present: Seminar
The Bible and Politics
Problems in the Archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Age Levant: Seminar
Mesopotamian
Mesopotamian History
Elementary Arabic
Intermediate Classical Arabic
The Cult of Saints in Arabic (Religious) Literature
Intermediate Modern Arabic
Advanced Classical Arabic
Advanced Modern Arabic
Sources for the Study of Islamic History
Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
History of Arabic Literature
Society and Culture in Modern Arabic Fiction
Classical Arabic Philology
Modern Arabic Literature
Classical Arabic Literature: Seminar
Arabic Philosophical Texts: Seminar
Targumic Aramaic
Readings in Syriac I & II
Introduction to Turoyo
Aramaic Language and Literature
Advanced Classical Armenian
Armenian Language and Literature
Armenian Epic
Reading and Research in Armenian Studies
Manicheism
Ethiopian Semitic Language and Literature
Elementary Classical Hebrew
Intermediate Classical Hebrew
Intermediate Hebrew (Biblical) II
Rapid Reading (Classical Hebrew)
Historical Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
Elementary Modern Hebrew
Intermediate Modern Hebrew
Hebrew of the Media: Press, TV, and Radio
Introduction to Talmudic Literature
Medieval Hebrew Poetry
Aristotle’s Ethics in Medieval Jewish Thought
Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion and Israel: Seminar
Nahum and the Assyrian Tradition in Israelite Prophecy
Studies in Jewish Historiography
Bavli Gittin IX - Ham’garesh
Jewish Autobiography
Sources of Jewish History - 1750
Classical Hebrew Language and Literature
Postbiblical Hebrew Language and Literature
Middle Persian I
Sorani Kurdish
Readings in Sorani Kurdish
Luri
Avestan II
The Maghrib Through Texts and Contexts
Elementary Persian
Intermediate Persian I & II
Selected Readings in Classical Persian Literature
Persian Language and Literature
Modern Jewish Religious Movements
Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation
The Origins of Jewish Mysticism
The Language of the Mystics
Guided Readings in Jewish History
Introduction to Ugaritic
Northwest Semitic Epigraphy: Seminar
Semitic and Afroasiatic Languages and Literatures
Intermediate Sumerian
Sumerian Historical Texts
Sumerian Incantations and Rituals
Sumerian Legal and Economic Texts
Sumerian Language and Literature
Elementary Swahili
Elementary Modern Turkish
Intermediate Turkish I & II
Elementary Uzbek
Advanced Turkish I & II
Introduction to Ottoman
Introduction to Ottoman Palaeography and Diplomatic Correspondence
Old Turkish
Advanced Uzbek
Chagatay: Poetry
Readings in Ottoman Sources
Turkish Language and Literatures
Old Iranian Religion
North Africa: 1500 to the Present
History and Culture of the Islamic Peoples of the Former Soviet Union
Approaches to Islamic Studies
Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam
Sumerian Myths and Epics
Introduction to the Hadith
Readings in Arabic Historians, Geographers and Biographers
Elementary/Intermediate/Modern Eastern Armenian
Classical Armenian
Armenian Language and Literature
Introduction to Classical Ethiopic
Advanced Modern Hebrew: Contemporary Israeli Culture
Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
Maimonides’ Book of Knowledge and Its Medieval Critics
(Hebrew) Political Thought: Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages
Jewish Bible Commentary in the Modern Period
Literature of Israel
Texts of the Social and Cultural History of the Jews in the Talmudic Era 970-500 CE)
Midrash: The Figure of Abraham
Genesis 15-23
Sources on the Jewish-Christian Encounter in the Middle Ages
Early Biblical Interpretation
Eastern Middle Iranian
Early History of Northwest Semetic

Psychology
International Conflict: Social-Psychological Approaches
Conflict Resolution: Research Seminar
Research Workshop in Social Psychology

Romance Languages and Literatures
Introduction to Francaphone Literature
Franciphone Film and Cinema
French African Literature

Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Introduction to Sindhi
Introduction to Sindhi
Introductory Urdu-Hindi
Intermediate Urdu-Hindi
Reading and Research

Social Studies
The Emergence of Modern Nationalism and the Idiosyncratic Instance of Zionism

Sociology
Ethnicity: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Medical Sociology
Freedom and Society in the Modern World

The Study of Religion
Scriptures and Classics
Jewish and Christian Understanding in the Garden of Eden
Judaism: The Liturgical Year
Islam in South Asia
Islam in South Asia: Seminar
Contemporary Interpretations of Jesus
Introduction to Islam

Harvard Business School
Business, Government, and the International Economy/ Economic Strategies of Nations

School of Design
Jerusalem 1798-1967: On the Immanence of Partition

Divinity School
Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament
History of the Religion of Israel
History of the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia
History of the Ancient Near East: Syria-Palestine
Prophecy in Ancient Israel
Myth and Myth-Making in the Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern World
Introduction to the New Testament: History and Interpretation
From Alexander the Great to Constantine: The Religion, Literature and Culture of the New Testament Times
History of Ancient Christianity from the Beginnings to the 4^th Century
Introduction to the New Testament
Book of Psalms
Biblical Archaeology
Selected Literature of the Second Temple Judaism
History and Historiography of the Ancient Near East
Galilee, Judea and Jerusalem during the First Century CE
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran Community
Midrash Tanhuma
Jesus of Nazareth and the Gospels
Matthew and Jewish Sectarianism
Joseph and Esther: Seminar
Midrash: The Figure of Abraham
Literature of Adam and Eve
The Books of Leviticus and Numbers
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
History and Archaeology
Hebrew Language and Texts of the Post-Exilic Period
Medieval Torah Commentary
Syro-Palestinian Pottery
Archaeology and the World of the New Testament
Religious Experience in the First Century
Dead Sea Scrolls: Seminar
Spells, Scrolls, and Saints: Armenian Fold Religion
World Religions: Diversity and Dialogue
The Charisma of Saints, and the Cultrs of Relics, Amulets, Images and Shrines
Scriptures and Classics
The Zoastrian Religion
The Islamic Tradition
Introduction to Islamic Mysticism: The Sufi Tradition
Introduction to Islam
Islamic Mysticism
Islamic Law and Ethics
Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation
Messanism, Mysticism and Magic in Modern Jewish Literature

School of Education
Cultural Perspectives in Educational Studies
Informing Education Policy Reform in Developing Countries
Education Policy and Planning: International Learning
New Technologies in Second Language Acquisition

Harvard Extension School
Introduction to Archaeology
Introduction to Biblical Archaeology
Archaeology of the Holy Land
Elementary Standard Arabic
Elementary Modern Standard Arabic
The Political History of the Middle East Since the Second World War
Comparative Civilizations of Eurasia
Survey of Islamic Art
International Organization
World Religions
The Bible and Politics
Introduction to Islam
Introduction to Islamic Mysticism: The Sufi Tradition

Kennedy School of Government
Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Politics of the Developing World
Poverty and Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries
Political Communications in International Perspective
Democracy and Democratization
International Peacekeeping and Conflict Prevention
Gender and Third World Development

Harvard Law School
The Islamic Legal System
Comparative Law: The Arab Middle East
International Law: Peach Operations and Conflict Prevention

School of Public Service
Introduction to the Practice of International Health
Financing Health Care in Developing Countries
Use of Media to Work and Fight for Better Health Around the World
Maternal Health and Child Health in Developing Countries
Women, Health and Development
Socio-Cultural Dimensions of International Health
Culture, Health and Reproduction
Political Economy of International Health Policy
Health Planning in Developing Countries
Doctoral Seminar in International Health Policy and Economics
Evaluating the Impact of Health Interventions in Developing Countries

Radcliffe Seminars
Mediterranean Culinary History
Classics in Travel Literature

Faculty
Ali Asani (Indo-Muslim culture)
Eva Bellin (government)
J. F. Coakley (Syriac)
Steven Cole (Assyriology)
Ayman El-Desouky (Arabic)
Philippe Fargues (history)
Byron Good (anthropology, medical anthropology)
Mary-Jo Good (sociology, medical sociology)
William Graham (history of religion)
William Granara (Arabic)
Jo Ann Hackett (Biblical Hebrew, Northwest Semitic epigraphy)
Paul D. Hanson (Biblical studies)
Jay M. Harris (Jewish studies)
Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (Arabic)
Theodore Hiebert (Hebrew Bible)
John Huehnergard (Semitic philology)
Cemal Kafadar (history)
Loli Kalavrezou (art history)
Edward L. Keenan (history)
Herbert C. Kelman (psychology)
Miri Kubovy (Hebrew)
James L. Kugel (Hebrew, comparative literature)
Angeliki Laiou (history)
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (anthropology)
David S. Landes (history, economics)
Jon D. Levenson (Jewish studies)
Peter Machinist (Near Eastern languages)
Muhsin Mahdi (Arabic, philosophy), Emeritus
Susan Miller (history)
Roy Mottahedeh (Islamic history)
Sandra Naddaff (comparative literature)
Gulru Necipoglu (fine arts)
Ronald Niezen (anthropology, social studies)
Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer (population sciences)
E. Roger Owen (history)
Laila Parsons (history)
Peter Rowe (architecture)
David Roxburgh (fine arts)
James A. Russell (Armenian)
A. I. Sabra (history of science), Emeritus
John Schoeberlein-Engel (anthropology)
Bernard Septimus (Jewish history)
Engin Sezer (Turkish)
Kay Shelemay (music)
Dennis Skiotis (Ottoman, Turkish history)
P. Oktor Skjaervo (Iranian)
Yasemin Soysol (sociology)
Lawrence E. Stager (archaeology)
Piotr Steinkeller (Assyriology)
Albert Szabo (visual arts, architecture)
Sinasi Tekin (Turkish)
Wheeler Thackston, Jr. (Persian)
Ashitosh Varshney (government)
Francois Vigier (regional planning)
Frank Vogel (law)
Joseph Weiler (law)
S. Cary Welch, Jr. (fine arts)
Irene Winter (fine arts)
Rena Winkelman (Modern Hebrew)
Robert Wisnovsky (Islamic history)
Nur Yalman (anthropology)

Students
AM in Regional Studies, 10 (4 female, 6 male)
Joint PhD programs, 51 (25 female, 26 male)

Degrees Granted in 1995-6
in Regional Studies, (3 female, 6 male)
PhD (1 female, 1 male)

Director
Cemel Kafadar

Associate Directors
Susan G. Miller, Thomas Mullins

Scholarships/Graduate Support
FLAS
teaching assistantships
Harvard grants-in-aid awarded on a need basis

Special Features
Harvard Extension Program--evening and summer divisions; an active outreach program (the Teaching Resource Center for precollegiate education, annual public lecture and film programs). Joint degree programs are available with the Department of Anthropology, Fine Arts, and History. Concurrent degrees with other departments may be arranged on an ad hoc basis. Center graduate degrees have been awarded concurrently with degrees from the Schools of Law and Business

Inquiries
Address general inquiries to:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge MA 02138
617-495-4055
fax 617-496-8584
mideast@fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-5757
fax 617-496-8904
nelc@fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/

Catalog requests:
Office of the Registrar
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Holyoke Center 831
1350 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge MA 02138

Requests for admissions materials should be addressed to:
GSAS Admissions Office
Byerly Hall
8 Garden St.
Cambridge MA 02138