Middle East Program at MIT is both a graduate and undergraduate program of study. The graduate program of study is to be taken in conjunction with the student's chosen field of study. The program focuses on challenges at the intersection of technology, development, and public policy in the Middle East. An independent concentration and a minor program are also available.

Degrees Offered

Anthropology Program, Economics Department, History Faculty, Political Science Department, Sloan School of Management, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Architecture, Department of Civil Engineering: BS, MS, PhD

MIT offers no Middle Eastern languages courses, but Harvard University and MIT permit students to cross-register such that MIT students may take Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian and Urdu at Harvard.

Courses

Offerings include:

Anthropology
Anthropology of the Middle East

Archaeology
Archaeology of the Middle East

Architecture
Civic and Residential Islamic Architecture Religious Architecture and
Islamic Culture The Architecture of Cairo Issues in Islamic Urbanism
Orientalism and Representation Special Problems in Islamic &
Nonwestern Architecture Special Problems in Islamic and Non-Western Architecture

Economics
Issues in the Economics of the Middle East

History
Islam, the Middle East and the West
The Middle East in the 20th Century
Nation, Faith, and Gender in the Middle East Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Political Science
Political Change in South Asia
Seminar on Politics and Conflicts in the Middle East

Women’s Studies
The Harem and the Veil: Images and
Representations of Gender in the Middle East

Core Courses of the Middle East Program are Politics, Technology, and Sustainability in the Middle East; Technology, Business and Public Policy in the Middle East

Faculty

Anthropology
Michael M.J. Fischer

Economics
Joshua Angrist
Franklin Fisher

Engineering
Elfatih A B Eltahir
Ahmed Ghoniem
Mujid Kazimi
Fred Moavenzadeh
Nafi Taksoz

History
Philip S. Khoury
Meriam Belli

International Finance and Management
Donald Lessard

Islamic Architecture
Nasser Omar Rabbat

Political Science
Nazli Choucri
Stephen W. Van Evera

Urban Studies and Planning
William Porter

Chair

Nazli Choucri, Middle East Program Faculty Committee

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