About Our Program
The Middle East Studies degree is designed to provide students with language and cultural competence in the region of the Middle East that can become the foundation for careers in public affairs, public service, business, and many other fields. Students are strongly encouraged to combine the Middle East Studies Major with a major in another discipline so that upon graduation they have acquired a foundation of career-oriented skills as well as a high degree of global competency.
Why Study the Middle East?
Middle East Center News & Events
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Jennifer Mitzen - October 29 - 4pm - Gardner Commons Room 2018
"Unthinkable as it is Happening: The Gaza War and Genocide"
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Annie Greene - The Laws of Women
Professor Greene is part of a peer-reviewed edited volume that will be published by Penn Press in February 2025! Her chapter is titled "The Laws of Women and the Insecurities of Men: Regulating Modern Jewish Gender Performance in Baghdad." In this chapter, she reads a Judeo-Arabic rabbinical text in light of the discussions about men and women in the Arab Renaissance and by Islamic modernists, instead of siloing it within Jewish Studies.