Program
Department of Asian and Middle East Languages and Literatures
Asian and Middle East Studies Program

Degree Offered
BA

Middle East Languages
Modern Standard Arabic (First Year [annually], Second Year [periodically]
Hebrew (First Year [annually], Second Year [periodically])
Biblical Hebrew (periodically)

Courses
Anthropology
Thought and Change in the Middle East and Central Asia (annually)

Art History
The Art of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East (annually)

Asian and Middle East Studies
Foreign Study Program in Fez, Morocco (offered annually in Spring quarter)

Government
Politics in the Contemporary Middle East (annually)
International Relations of the Middle East (annually)

History
History of the Middle East, 622-1258 (periodically)
History of the Middle East, 1258-1914 (periodically)
The Islamic World: The Eye of the Beholder (annually)
Social History of the Contemporary Middle East (annually)
Arab-Israeli Conflict (annually)

Literature
Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation (biennially)
Classical Hebrew Literature in Translation (biennially)
Thousand and One Nights (periodically)
Arab-Israeli Conflict in Middle Eastern Literature (periodically)
Survey of Middle Eastern Literature (periodically)
Special Topics in Hebrew Studies (annually)

Religion
Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible-Old Testament (annually)
Introduction to the New Testament (annually)
Introduction to Judaism (annually)
The Islamic Tradition (annually)
Ancient Near Eastern Mythologies (annually)
Islam in Modernity (biennially)
Islamic Mysticism (Sufism) (biennially)
Classical and Medieval Judaism (annually)
Modern Judaism (annually)

Sociology
Social Change: Iran, Nicaragua and the Philippines (annually)

Faculty
Anthropology
Dale F. Eickelman (anthropology of Islam, religion, politics of the Middle East and North Africa, and legitimacy and authority in traditional and contemporary societies)

Art History
Ada Cohen (art of ancient Near East, Greece, and the Hellenic world)

Asian and Middle East languages and Literatures
Lewis Glinert (study of the Hebrew language and literature and Hebrew culture)
Hussein Kadhim (Arabic language and literature)

English
Barbara Kreiger (travel literature on the Holy Lands)

Government
Dirk Vandewalle (state and economic liberalization in the Middle East, international systems and subsystems in the Middle East, and economic and political development in Egypt and North Africa)

History
Gene R. Garthwaite (Bakhtiyari manuscripts, a social history of 19th and 20th century Iran, history of Iran in the 1920's and 1930's)

Religion
Susan Ackerman (relationship of ancient Israelite religion to the religions of the cultures which surrounded Israel, including Canaan, Mesopotamia, and Greece)
A. Kevin Reinhart (Islamic studies)
Ehud Benor (Jewish philosophy and mysticism--medieval and modern, philosophy of religion)

Sociology
Misagh Parsa (analysis of Western and Third World political and economic developments from a comparative, historical perspective)

Students
Undergraduates only; students major in Asian studies or in disciplines

Chair
Pamela Crossley

Asian and Middle East Studies Program
102A Bartlett Hall
Hinman Box 6191
Dartmouth College
Hanover NH 03755
603-646-2861
fax 603 646-3115
www.dartmouth.edu/~asia/