Middle East and North Africa Studies

Mohammad Mahallati, Chair, Presidential Scholar in Islamic Studies
Zeinab Abul-Magd, Associate Professor of History
Mahmoud Meslat, Instructor of Arabic

Middle East and North Africa studies at Oberlin draws upon faculty and courses across the humanities and social sciences. We construe the region broadly, including Africa north of the Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula, Eastern Mediterranean, Iran, Turkey, and the Red Sea and Gulf littoral states. Students can add a MENA minor to any other course of study. Completion of a MENA minor demonstrates a basic level of familiarity with this region; the range of courses permits students to develop their curriculum and to pursue deeper and broader studies beyond the minor requirements. Because of the wide range of subject matters relevant to understanding the region, many courses from differing disciplinary orientations can count toward the minor with the only subject requirement being a beginning knowledge of at least one of the languages used in the region.

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Majors and Minors

• Middle East and North Africa Minor  

Courses

• ARBC 101 - Beginning Arabic I
• ARBC 102 - Beginning Arabic II
• ARBC 225 - SLP Intermediate Arabic 2
• ARBC 290 - SLP Levantine Colloquial Arabic: Jordanian and Palestinian
• ARBC 995F - Private Reading - Full
• ARBC 995H - Private Reading - Half