Middle East and North Africa Studies

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Professor of Religion and Presidential Scholar in Islamic Studies; chair

Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nancy Schrom Dye Professor of Middle East and North African Studies
Rishad I. Choudhury, Assistant Professor of History
Mahmoud Meslat, Visiting Instructor of Arabic
Eve N. Sandberg, Robert S. Danforth Professor of Politics

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The Middle East and North Africa Studies Program at Oberlin College 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.

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Majors and Minors

• Middle East and North Africa Studies Minor  

Courses

• ARBC 101 - Beginning Arabic I
• ARBC 102 - Beginning Arabic II
• ARBC 153H - Language and Society in the Arab World
• ARBC 213 - Shared Languages Program: Conversational Arabic
• ARBC 995F - Private Reading - Full
• ARBC 995H - Private Reading - Half