Program Overview

Middle East and North Africa Studies

Middle East and North Africa Studies draws upon faculty and courses across the humanities and social sciences. The minor in this course of study focuses on this region broadly including Africa north of the Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula, Eastern Mediterranean, Iran, Turkey, and the Red Sea and Gulf Littoral states.

An illustration of three ambassadors and the king with some writing in Arabic. — Detail from an Illustrated Copy of the Shahnameh, “The King Receives Three Ambassadors,” Persian, late 15th century.

Photo credit: Courtesy of Allen Memorial Art Museum

Program Facts

Program Type: Minor

Program Director

Zeinab Abul-Magd,
Nancy Schrom Dye Professor of Middle Eastern History

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Zeinab Abul-Magd

Nancy Schrom Dye Professor of Middle Eastern History

Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine

Assistant Professor

Rishad Choudhury ’07

Associate Professor of History

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King Building

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