University of Arizona

Program
Departments:
- Near Eastern Studies
- History
- Anthropology
- Political Science
Center for Middle Eastern Studies (The Center is an interdisciplinary unit which itself does not offer any degrees)

Degrees Offered
BA
MA
PhD

Middle East Languages
Arabic (3 years Modern Standard, Conversational Levantine, Conversational Gulf, Egyptian Arabic)
Persian (3 years)
Hebrew (3 years Modern)
Turkish (2 years)

Courses
Agriculture
Global Agriculture & International Relations
Agriculture & Resource Economics
Economic Policy in Developing Countries
Anthropology
Archaeometry: Scientific Methods in Art and
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnography of the Middle East
Introduction to Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
Old World Prehistory
Prehistoric Mesopotamia
Women in Middle East Society
Architecture
World Architecture: Ancient Through Medieval
Energy Analysis-Computer Simulation
Arid Lands
Cultures & Inst. of Arid Lands
Classics
Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Architecture
Literacy & Literature in the Ancient Near East
Geography
Geography of the Middle East
Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
Physical Aspects of Arid Lands
History
Advanced Studies in Middle East History
Asia and the West
History and Historiography in Colonial North Africa
History of Byzantuim
History of Medieval India I
History of Modern India & Pakistan: 1750-Present
History of Muslim Societies
Islamic Mysticism
Nomad Warriors
The Ottoman Empire to 1800
Religion and State in Islam
Religious History of India
Struggle and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa
Women in Islamic History
Women & Imperialism, 1800-1962
Women & the Literature of Identity in Modern Middle East and North Africa
Humanities
Ancient Egypt: Culture/Language
Highlights of the Ancient Mediterranean World
Introduction to Humanities
Women in Nationalist and Political Struggles
Hydrology
International River Basins
Introduction to Water resource Systems Analysts
Water, Environment and Society
Journalism
International Communications
Judaic Studies
Archaeology & the Bible
Book of Psalms
Feminist Approaches in the Bible
Hebrew Literature in Translation
History and Religion of Israel in Ancient Times
History of Jews
History Jewish/Christian Relations
Introduction to Judaism
Israel: Women
Jewish Mysticism
Jewish Response to Holocaust
Modern Israel
Modern Jewish Thought
The Apocalyptic Imagination
Survey of Jewish Music
Women in Ancient Israel
Women in Judaism
Management and Information Systems
International Dimension Information Technology
Music
Arab and Asian Music
Introduction to Music Literature
Music in World Cultures
Near Eastern Studies
Art and Architecture of the Islamic World
Ancient Civilization of the Near East
Ancient Mesopotamia
Arabic Multi-Media
Archaeology Old Testament World
Art and Cultural Islamic Spain
Art & Architecture of the Islamic World
Biblical Hebrew: Prose Texts
Economic History of the Islamic World
History of Arab Israeli Conflict
History of Middle East
History of Modern Turkey from 1800
History of North Africa: Islamic Conquest to Modern Independence
Indian Civilization
Islamic Civilization: Traditional and Modern Middle East
Islamic Law and Society
Islamic Thought
Language & Society in Middle East & South Asia
Mediterranean Cities in the 15th-16thC - Cairo, Istanbul, Florence &Venice
Middle Eastern Humanities
Modern History of the Middle East
Ottoman Turkish Empire
Political Islamic Movements
Population & Development in the Middle East
Readings in Classical Arabic Poetry
Readings in Modern Arabic Prose
Social, Cultural & Political History of Iranian Plateau
The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
The Middle Eastern City and Islamic Urbanism II
Transformation of Agrarian Society in the Middle East
Public Administration
International Management
Public Health
Maternal & Child Health
Public Health and Nutrition
Political Science
American Foreign Policy
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Comparative Political Elites
Contemporary International Politics
Democracies, Emerging and Evolving
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Introduction to International Relations
International Political Economics
Politics of Cultural Conflict
Population and Development in the Middle East
Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
Soviet and Post-Soviet Foreign Policy
Theory International Relations
Religion
Comparative Religions
Epistles of St. Paul
Jesus in Contemporary Thought
Culture and Civilization in North Africa
For frequency of course offerings, please consult the current University of Arizona catalog and schedule of classes

Faculty
Anthropology
Anne Bennett
Anne H. Betteridge
Steven Falconer
Carol Kramer
Steven Kuhn
John Olsen
Thomas Park
Mary Stiner
Arabic
Adel S. Gamal
Hamdi Qafisheh
William J. Wilson
Arid Lands Studies
Amir I. Ajami
Stuart Marsh
Robert G. Varady
Architecture
Nader Chalfoun
Mark Frederickson
R. Brooks Jeffrey
Fred Matter
Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
Mamadou Baro
Helen Henderson
Classics
David Soren
Economics
Barbara Sands
Donald A. Wells
Egyptology
Richard Wilkinson
Environmental Studies
James Riley
French
Jean Goetinck
Geography
Michael E. Bonine
Hebrew
Shoshana Green
History
Julia Clancy-Smith
Linda Darling
Leonard Dinnerstein
Richard Eaton
Fay Frick
Charles D. Smith
Humanities
Richard Wilkinson
Hydrology
Nathan Buras
Soroosh Sorooshian
Journalism
Jaqueline E Sharkey
Judaic Studies
Beth Alpert-Nakhai
Esther Fuchs
Lou Silberman
J. Edward Wright
Linguistics and Persian
Simin Karimi
Management and Information Systems
Seymour Goodman
Media Arts
Beverly Seckinger
Medicine
Fayez K. Ghishan
Iman Hakim
Anthony Vuturo
Middle East Librarian
Midhat Abraham
Music
Janet Sturman
Near Eastern Studies
Amir Ajami
Ludwig W. Adamec
William G. Dever
Leila Hudson
Amy W. Newhall
Persian
Kamran Talattof
Political Science
David Dunford
David N. Gibbs
Mark A. Tessler
John P. Willerton
Psychiatry
John Racy
Public Administration
Chris Demchak
Religious Studies
Robert Burns
Turkish
Nalan Babur

Directors
Michael E. Bonine, Department Head, Near Eastern Studies
Anne H. Betteridge, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Scholarships/Graduate Support
Students may apply for academic year and summer FLAS fellowships. The Center actively participates in the Center for Arabic Study Abroad language program in Cairo as well as being a member of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, American Institute for Yemeni Studies, American Research Center in Egypt, American Research Institute in Turkey, Middle East Studies Association, Turkish Studies Association, American Institute of Iranian Studies, and the Western States Consortium of Middle East Centers which sponsors an annual intensive language program during the summer. [Community support makes possible several scholarships for undergraduate students wishing to study a Middle Eastern language.] General university scholarships and low-rate interest government loans are also available

Special Features
Study options at the UA include degrees in history, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, geography, medicine, architecture, and business. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies collaborates closely with the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the College of Medicine, the Environmental Research Laboratory, the Office of Arid Lands Studies, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women and the Department of Women's Studies. The Middle East Studies Association is also headquartered at the University of Arizona. The Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies offer an interdepartmental approach to Near Eastern Studies covering the areas of Islamic North Africa, the Fertile Crescent and Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and those portions of the Indian subcontinent which are or have been historically under Muslim influence. Training is offered to students anticipating careers in teaching, government, business and related endeavors in which knowledge of the Middle East is essential. The Department of History offers a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Histories with a World History emphasis.

Inquiries
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
520-621-5450
fax 520-621-9257
http://www.cmes.arizona.edu

Department of Near Eastern Studies
520-621-8013
fax 520-621-2333
University of Arizona
Tucson AZ 85721
http://w3.arizona.edu/~neareast
neareast@u.arizona.edu

Last updated Tuesday, August 19, 2003