Program
Department of History
Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization Program
Contemporary Turkish Studies Program
Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

Degrees Offered
BA
MA
PhD

Middle East Languages
Arabic (Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced)
Armenian
Hebrew (Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced)

Courses
Anthropology
Peoples of the Middle East
Asian Women
Political Anthropology
Economic Anthropology

Archaeology
Aegean Archaeology

Fine Arts
Survey of Armenian Art: 4th-14th Centuries
Early Christian and Byzantine Art

History
The Modern Middle East until World War I
The Modern Middle East from World War I
Medieval Islamic History
The Ottoman Empire
History of Iran
Introduction to Islam
Ancient Egypt
Seminars on Special Topics
Politics, Religion, and Class in the Middle East
The Byzantine Empire
Islamic History
Survey of Armenian History
Modern History of South Asia

Judaic Studies
Aspects of the Sephardic Tradition
Introduction to Jewish Literature
Topics in Hebrew Literature
Topics in Jewish Literature in Translation; Introduction to the Talmud
Narrative in Jewish Literature
Jewish Mysticism
Hebrew Poetry in Translation

Political Science and International Relations
International Politics: The Middle East
Seminar on United States and the Third World
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Seminar on Foreign Policy in the Arab World

Religion
Islamic Tradition
Judaism through the Centuries
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

Romance Languages
The Civilization of Muslim Spain
Additional courses available through petition to The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Faculty
Arabic
Muhammad Alwan

Archaeology
Jodi Magness

Civilization of Muslim Spain
Madeline Fletcher

Fine Arts
Lucy Der Manuelian
Eva Hoffman

Hebrew
Joel Rosenberg

History
Deina Abdel-Kader
Sugata Bose
Leila Fawaz
Beatrice Manz;

Political Science
Malik Mufti
Charles A. Smith

Religion
Muhammed Mahmoud

Chair
Leila Fawaz

Special Features
The Experimental College at Tufts periodically offers courses on Middle Eastern history or on Middle Eastern languages