The following courses have been taught at least once since Fall Term 2016 or will be taught this academic year. For courses in the current academic year, see the 2020-2021 courses page. For information about courses from earlier years, please see the program director.

Please note that the below is meant for historical reference only, with no implications for future offerings beyond this academic year. For information on when these courses may be taught in the future, please contact the relevant instructor.

Group 1: History, Social Sciences, Religion, and Archaeology

  • AFST 130 Global Islam and Blackness – A. Ibrahim
  • CLAS 122 The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory: From the Beginning to the Classical Age – A. Knodell
  • HIST 131 Saints, Sinners and Philosophers in Late Antiquity – W. North
  • HIST 133 Crisis, Creativity, and Transformation in Late Antiquity – W. North
  • HIST 138 Crusades, Mission and the Expansion of Europe – V. Morse
  • HIST 204 The Medieval Mediterranean – V. Morse
  • HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 843-1453 – W. North
  • HIST 260 The Making of the Modern Middle East – A. Khalid
  • HIST 265 Central Asia in the Modern Age – A. Khalid
  • HIST 280 African in the Arab World – T. Willis
  • HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity – A. Khalid
  • MELA 230 Jewish Collective Memory – S. Beckwith
  • POSC 235 The Global War on Terror – S. Forester
  • POSC 246 Politics of the Middle East II (1967-2011) – H. Bou Nassif (discontinued)
  • POSC 282 Terrorism and Violence in World Politics – H. Bou Nassif (discontinued)
  • POSC 320 Authoritarianism and Democratization in the Middle East – H. Bou Nassif (discontinued)
  • RELG 100.00-Muhammad – N. Salomon
  • RELG 100.04-Religion, Law, Religious Law – N. Salomon
  • RELG 161-Making Meaning of the Hebrew Bible – S. Anderson
  • RELG 162 Jesus, Paul and Christian Origins (New Testament) – S. Anderson
  • RELG 215 Muslim Misfits: Islam and the Question of Orthodoxy – N. Salomon
  • RELG 228 Martyrdom – S. Anderson
  • RELG 248 Religion, Law, Religious Law – N. Salomon
  • RELG 262 Islamic Africa – N. Salomon
  • RELG 263 Sufism – N. Salomon
  • RELG 264 Islamic Politics – N. Salomon
  • RELG 268 The Perfumed Life: Islamic Sources of the Self – N. Salomon
  • RELG 340 Contemporary Islamic Renewal – N. Salomon
  • SOAN 151 Global Minnesota-An Anthropology of our State – A. Ibrahim
  • SOAN 263-Terrorism – A. Ibrahim

Group 2: Literature, Culture, and the Arts

  • ARBC 100.00 Arabs Encountering the West – Z. Haidar (in translation)
  • ARBC 144 Arabic Literature at War (5a) – Z. Haidar
  • ARBC 206 Arabic in Cultural Context – Z. Haidar/Y. Klein
  • ARBC 211 Colloquial Levantine – Z. Haidar
  • ARBC 215 Readings in Medieval Arabic Anthologies – Y. Klein (in Arabic)
  • ARBC 222 Music in the Middle East – Y. Klein (in translation)
  • ARBC 286 Narratives of Arab Modernity – Z. Haidar (in translation)
  • ARBC 310 Advanced Media Arabic – Z. Haidar/Y. Klein
  • ARBC 371-Readings in Pre-Modern Arabic Science – Y. Klein (in Arabic and translation)
  • ARBC 387 The One Thousand and One Nights – Y. Klein (in Arabic and translation)
  • ARTH 155 Islamic Art and Architecture – J. Keating
  • ARTH 253 Islam in the Eyes of the West – J. Keating
  • CAMS 236 Israeli Society in Israeli Cinema – S. Beckwith (in translation)
  • CCST 100.02 Cross Cultural Perspectives on Israeli and Palestinian Identity – S. Beckwith (in translation)
  • ENGL 228 Encountering the Other: The Crusades – J. DeAngelo
  • FREN 360 The Algerian War of Liberation and its Representations – S. Rousseau (in French)
  • FREN 395/350 The Middle East and French Connection – S. Rousseau (in French)
  • HEBR 222 Writing Tel Aviv, Writing Jerusalem – S. Beckwith (in translation)