The CUE Guide (Committee on Undergraduate Education Guide) serves as an indispensable tool for Harvard students during the course selection process by supplementing other sources of information such as the Courses of Instruction, academic advisors, and shopping period visits to classes.

During the 2005-2006 academic year professors who agreed to participate in the evaluation process were assessed online. Students were asked to rate classes on a scale of 1 to 5, and to evaluate professors’ pedagogy, the course curriculum, and other areas such as website, workload, difficulty, competitiveness, pace, and the level of assignments. More than 90 percent of Harvard College classes enrolling 20 or more are now evaluated by students at the end of the semester.

The following faculty of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies received scores of 4.5 or higher from students for courses taught in the 2005-2006 academic year. Congratulations on these commendable results!

Mostafa Atamnia received a score of 4.9 for Elementary Arabic (Arabic A).

Marwa Elshakry received an overall rating of 4.9 and a teaching score of 4.9 for Science and Empire: Conference Course (Hist. Sci. 151).

Carl Sharif Eltobgui received scores of 4.9 for Advanced Classical Arabic II (Arabic 130b) and 4.7 for Advanced Modern Arabic I/II (Arabic 131a and b).

Luis Girón-Negrón’s teaching of Mysticism and Literature: Seminar (Comp. Lit. 211) received a score of 4.8.

William Granara received high scores for Modern Arabic Narratives: Self, Society, and Culture (Foreign Cultures 82), Intermediate Classical Arabic I (Arabic 120a) and Intermediate Modern Arabic I/II (Arabic 121a and b). Professor Granara continues to offer these courses in 2006-2007, in addition to a seminar on Andalus, Sicily and the Maghrib in Literary and Cultural Texts (Arabic 246r) and a new course entitled Journey, Exile, and Displacement in Modern Arabic Literature (Comp. Lit. 263).

Anna Grinfeld was consistently awarded scores of 4.7 and higher for her sections of Intermediate and Advanced Hebrew (Modern Hebrew 120a/b and 125 a/b).

Hakan Karateke received a score of 4.9 for Elementary Turkish (Turkish A).

Miri Kubovy's teaching of Advanced Modern Hebrew (Mod Heb 125b) was awarded 4.7.

Susan Miller has consistently received a perfect score of 5.0 for her teaching of The Muslim Mediterranean City (Islamic Civ. 120). This semester she will offer a course through the NELC department on Colonialism and After in the Maghrib (Islamic Civ. 123).

Roger Owen’s Economic History of the Middle East since World War II (Hist. 1890b) received a teaching score of 4.7. The course will be offered again this fall.