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Academic Programs

 

Program Highlights

 

COURSES

Interested in taking MENA courses? Whether your a major, minor, grad student, have a general interest, or are satisfying requirements, check out what courses are being offered!

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Research

MENA faculty members produce cutting-edge research and public scholarship on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa, publishing articles in leading academic journals and books that are widely taught and make an impact both in the scholarly world and in the wider cultural conversation.
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PROGRAMMING

We host a range of events over the course of the academic year including a quarterly New Directions in Middle East & North African Studies lecture, our MENA Conversations series, the MENA Graduate Student Colloquium, an annual Research Symposium, and events organized by our Working Groups.
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Upcoming Events

 

 

Events

 
May
20
2026
Islamic China: An Asian History

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston

Speaker: Rian Thum, Senior Lecturer in East Asian History, the University of Manchester For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Ch...

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