Middle Eastern Studies

Video: 'Soundscapes of the Middle East'
Students explore how studying sound can add depth to historical research.
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES PROGRAM NEWSLETTER
Read our first edition of our Middle Eastern Studies Program Newsletter.
Ezzedine Fishere Is Khashoggi Fellow at 'The Washington Post'
The visiting professor of Middle Eastern Studies will write bimonthly columns.
Lebanese Rock Band Brings Its Hard-Driving Music to the Hop
Mashrou' Leila has been called "the voice of its generation" in the Arab world.
Middle Eastern Studies Professor Wins Prize for Arabic Fiction
Hoda Barakat will receive an award of $50,000 in recognition of her novel “The Night Mail.”
Tarek El-Ariss on Seeing the ‘Other’ in a New Light
The associate professor discusses Arab culture, the “monster” of the unknown, and much more.
Middle Eastern and Asian Studies to Get Their Own Programs
Faculty say the restructuring will encourage deeper, more interdisciplinary study.
Two Students Help Translate Novel From Arabic Into English
‘All That Nonsense,’ by Visiting Professor Ezzedine Fishere, is a best-seller in Egypt.
Jonathan Smolin: Writing About Morocco, Running Marathons
“Police repression is an experience that binds people throughout the Arab world,” writes

The Martyrdom of the Franciscans: Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict (The Middle Age Series)
Christopher MacEvitt

University of Pennsylvania Press
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
Zahra Ayubi

Columbia University Press
The Egyptian Assassin: A Novel
Ezzedine C. Fishere, Translator: Jonathan Wright

Hoopoe
The Story of Hebrew
Lewis H. Glinert

Princeton University Press

Middle Eastern Studies Program