Each semester the Center for Middle Eastern Studies publishes an online resource of Middle East-related area studies and language courses for use by students, faculty, associates and visitors to the website. The resource comprises courses taught at Harvard graduate schools and other Boston-area universities.

This semester we are delighted to announce the creation of a wide array of new courses, in various disciplines, on the Middle East. These new courses, many taught by CMES primary and related faculty, and by CMES visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows, include:

• Leila Ahmed (HDS), Explorations in the Colonial and Post-Colonial History of the Veil: Seminar (Religion 1826)
  
• M. Shahab Ahmed (NELC), The Vocabulary of Islam (Religion 1806)
  
• Khaled al-Masri (NELC), Colloquial Levantine Arabic (Arabic 134)
• Helga Anetshofer-Kafadar, Middle Turkic (Turkish 152)
  
• Steven C. Caton (Anthropology), Middle East Ethnography: Discourse, Politics and Culture (Anthro. 2690)
• Nadia El Cheikh (Shawwaf Visiting Professor), Women and Gender in Classical Islamic Societies (Arabic 149), and Readings in Contemporary Arabic and Islamic Thought: Seminar (Arabic 211 - conducted in Arabic).
• Khaled El-Rouayheb (NELC), Medieval Arabic Logic: Seminar (Arabic 258 - reading knowledge of Arabic)
  
• Baber Johansen (HDS, Islamic Legal Studies Program), Religious Texts from the Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries on Power and Property (HDS 3613).
• Christian Lange (CMES Postdoctoral fellow), Revelation, Reason & Experience as Sources of Religious Knowledge in Islam, (HDS 3619).
• Afsaneh Najmabadi (History, and Women, Sexuality and Gender studies), Harem Fictions: From Montesquieu to Merniss (WGS 1220)
  
• Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar (History of Art and Architecture), Architecture of the Mediterranean World (1300-1650) (HAA 122x)
• David J. Roxburgh (History of Art and Architecture), From Saracenic to Islamic: Exhibiting Islamic Art (HAA 224e)
• Fatima Sadiqui (CMES Visiting Scholar), Language, Gender and Islam in North Africa: Seminar (HDS 3866)
  
• Emad Shahin (Visiting Professor, AUC), Globalization, Development, and the Middle East (Govt. 1218)
• Thomas Simons (Govt.), Post-Communist Islam (Govt. 1209)

Please see the CMES Middle East-related course list for full details of courses and meeting times, available as a downloadable PDF, and in hard copy at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street.

If we have omitted to include a course, please contact Hannah-Louise Clark, hclark@fas.harvard.edu