Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley

Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley's Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Department (formerly known as Near Eastern Studies) A. and Ph.D.

Berkeley's Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Department (formerly known as Near Eastern Studies), founded in 1894, is one of the oldest and most distinguished in the country. The Department offers both general instruction and specialized training in Archaeology, Art History, Assyriology, Egyptology, Iranian Studies, Judaic and Islamic Studies, Comparative Semitics, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and

Turkish. Specific concentrations offered by the department are:
Arabic Language and Literature, Cuneiform (Assyriology, and Sumerology), Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Hebrew Studies (Bible, Rabbinic Literature, Modern Hebrew Language and Literature), Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, Persian Language and Literature, Semitics and Turkish Language. For students from other disciplines, the department offers a wide variety of courses to supplement such related fields as classics, linguistics, history, political science, comparative literature, anthropology, and art history. The Department strongly recommends that its own graduate students take advantage of courses in these other fields, provided that they are relevant to their fields of study. Many of the department's courses are restricted to a small number of students, thus affording an opportunity for close contact with the instructing staff. The Department offers a comprehensive body of information on past and present Near Eastern civilizations; instruction is given in both language/literature and lecture courses. The department offers an undergraduate major in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Students can specialization in 5 major subplans including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Ancient Middle Eastern Worlds, or Modern Middle Eastern Worlds. Please see the Berkeley Academic Guide for more information about the undergraduate programs: http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree-programs/middle-eastern-languages-cultures/

Graduate programs leading to the M. degrees are offered in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian languages and literature, Near Eastern Archaeology, Art History, Cuneiform, Hebrew Bible, Biblical and Judaic Studies, Old Iranian Studies, Egyptology, and Islamic Studies.

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Classical Persian Literature | Fall 2024
06/24/2024

Classical Persian Literature | Fall 2024

Intensive Arabic Texts Program | Application due July 1 | CMES and IBA in Karachi, Pakistan
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Intensive Arabic Texts Program | Application due July 1 | CMES and IBA in Karachi, Pakistan

05/13/2024
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our last "Let's Talk about Palestine" event! And many, many thanks to the par...
04/18/2024

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our last "Let's Talk about Palestine" event! And many, many thanks to the participants who made this series such a success.

04/16/2024

Palestinian Literature and the Writing of Trauma" with Dr. Ahmad Diab and Dr. Stefania Pandolfo

Please join us TODAY for the fourth and final event in our “Let’s Talk about Palestine” teach-in series!Palestinian Lite...
04/16/2024

Please join us TODAY for the fourth and final event in our “Let’s Talk about Palestine” teach-in series!

Palestinian Literature and the Writing of Trauma
with Dr. Ahmad Diab and Dr. Stefania Pandolfo
moderated by Dr. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
4 pm in the Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

All events are open to the public and will be livestreamed at www.youtube.com/

Coordinated by the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC)
Co-sponsored by: Ethnic Studies, Rhetoric, Critical Theory, ICCTP, CMES
contact: [email protected]

This Tuesday, please join us in person or virtually for the fourth and final event in our "Let's Talk about Palestine" s...
04/12/2024

This Tuesday, please join us in person or virtually for the fourth and final event in our "Let's Talk about Palestine" series!

Palestinian Literature and the Writing of Trauma
with Dr. Ahmad Diab and Dr. Stefania Pandolfo
moderated by Dr. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
4 pm in the Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

All events are open to the public and will be livestreamed at www.youtube.com/

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