Modern Middle Eastern Studies

2019-2020 Course List

There has rarely been a time in which an in-depth understanding of the languages, cultures, history, and politics of the contemporary has been more important. This interdisciplinary degree is designed to allow students to specialize in the Middle East as a region of the world by combining course work using both social scientific and humanistic approaches, underpinned by relevant language skills. Students will work with faculty committed to supporting interdisciplinary, applied, research-oriented advanced study. The major gives students opportunities to work on problems of politics, policy, history, ideology, literature, social thought, economic development, and international relations.

The Major: The major consists of at least 12 course units to be distributed as follows:

(1) Disciplinary Distribution: A selection of three courses that must include both the Social Sciences and the Humanities – three course units

(2) Language: Four course units on one Middle Eastern Language (e.g.: , Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish) including at least two course units at the intermediate (second year) level or above.

(3) Regional coverage: Three course units, including at least one foundational course and at least one course centered on a culture other than that associated with the language selected in (2). One or two of these may be courses about the Middle East region in general.

(4) Two seminar courses requiring significant research papers.

The Minor: At least six course units on the Middle East including the following:

(1) Two courses from the Humanities (2) Two courses from the Social Sciences (3) Two elective courses (which may include two language courses in a single language)

Course List Key: Blue: Course Fulfills MMES Humanities Requirement Orange: Course Fulfills MMES Social Sciences Requirement Green: Course Fulfills MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Requirement Purple: MMES Foundational Course Highlighted: Prior Approval from Middle East Center Required for Course to Fulfill MMES Requirement

For MMES-related questions, contact Dr. John Ghazvinian, Associate Director of the Middle East Center, at [email protected], (215) 898-4690, 228 Fisher-Bennett Hall.

Foundational Courses in Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Art History

ARTH 217 – Islamic Civilization & Its Visual Culture

History

HIST 081 – History of the Middle East Since 1800 HIST 371 – Africa and the Middle East

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

NELC 102 – Introduction to the Middle East

Political Science

PSCI 211 – Politics in the Contemporary Middle East PSCI 253 – International Relations of the Middle East

Religious Studies

RELS 143 – Introduction to Islam RELS 146 – Islam in the Modern World

All Modern Middle Eastern Studies majors MUST take at least one foundational course. Note that not every foundational course is offered every year.

Modern Middle Eastern Studies 2019-2020 Course Also Offered As: HIST 275 List Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit Africana Studies Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Requirement AFRC 233 World History: Africa or the Middle East AFRC 332 North Africa: History, Culture, Society African cities in the past contributed to dynamic and prosperous civilizations. What happened? This This interdisciplinary seminar aims to introduce course examines Africans' aspirations of modernity students to the countries of North Africa, with a through the lens of African urban history using focus on the Maghreb and (1830-present). It fiction, film and current scholarship in several does so while examining the region's close economic disciplines. Each class will explore two temporalities and cultural connections to sub-Saharan Africa, -- the precolonial history of African cities, and the Europe, and the Middle East. Readings will include colonial and postcolonial histories of economic, histories, political analyses, anthropological studies, social and political progress which goes by the name and novels, and will cover a wide range of topics of development. Grounded in the case studies of such as colonial and postcolonial experiences, both ancient and modern cities, this course explores developments in Islamic thought and practice, and the emergence and decline of trading centers, the labor migration. This class is intended for juniors, rise of colonial cities, and the dilemmas of seniors, and graduate students. postcolonial economies and politics. Course not offered every year Taught by: Babou, Powell Also Offered As: AFRC 332,HIST 370,NELC 332,NELC Usually offered in Spring semester 632 Also Offered As: GSWS 232,HIST 232, NELC 282 Activity: Seminar Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Notes: Topics vary: See the Africana Studies Requirement Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings. AFRC 372 Africa and the Mid-East Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Requirement This seminar will explore the historical relationship (Prior Approval from MEC Required for MMES between these two regions from the early modern Credit) age to the present. We will examine the history of trade, particularly the slave trade, and its cultural AFRC 274 Faces of Jihad in African Islam and political legacy. We will compare the experiences of European -- how the This course is designed to provide the students with scramble for Africa dovetailed with the last decades a broad understanding of the history of Islam in of the Ottoman Empire -- with an eye to how this Africa. The focus will be mostly on West Africa, but shaped nationalist movements in both regions. The we will also look at developments in other regions of course will also explore the decades of the continent. We will explore Islam not only as independence with a special eye towards pan- religious practice but also as ideology and an Africanism and pan-Arabism. We will also study the instrument of social change. We will examine the ramifications of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the process of Islamization in Africa and the different relationship between African and Middle-Eastern uses of Jihad. Topics include prophetic jihad, jihad of countries, from Uganda to Ethiopia, from OPEC to the pen and the different varieties of jihad of the Darfur. This course will pay close attention to sword throughout the history in Islam in sub- migrations through the regions, whether forced or Saharan Africa. economic or religious. Whenever possible we will explore, through film and literature, how people in Taught by: Babou Africa and the Middle East see their connections, Usually offered in Fall semester and their differences.

Taught by: Eve Troutt Powell, Young relative water scarcity and abundance at different Course not offered every year times and places. This course examines the Also Offered As: HIST 371,NELC 334 distribution of water resources throughout the Activity: Seminar Middle East and the archaeology and anthropology 1.0 Course Unit of water exploitation and management over the last Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences 9000 years, looking at continuities and changes Requirement through time. Students will learn to make basic digital maps representing Middle Eastern hydro- Anthropology geography and arguments about modern and historic water resources in the region. The class will ANTH 053 Music in Troubled Places cooperatively play an "irrigation management game" designed to familiarize personnel involved in the In this class, we go beyond the headlines to discuss operation of irrigation schemes with the logistical the history and cultures of peoples who have had to and social issues involved in water management. We endure terrible suffering, particularly through ethnic will engage with a variety of media, including conflict and civil war. We will focus on a curious academic readings, popular journalism, films, phenomenon: populations typically defined as satellite imagery, and digital maps, in our quest to separate from one another (e.g., Israelis and explore whether or not the past can inform present ) often have a history of shared or efforts to better manage modern water resources. related cultural practices, of which music is a prime The course is structured in units focused on each of example. We will survey a number of current and the major hydro-environmental zones of the Middle recent conflict zones and use music as a way to East: the river valleys of Mesopotamia, , and deepen our understanding of the identities and the Levant, the internal basins of western Central relationships between the peoples involved Asia and the Levant, the deserts of Arabia and North including through a consideration of my own Africa, highland zones in and , and fieldwork in Sri Lanka. Querying the very definitions coastal marsh areas along the Persian Gulf. We will of music, trouble, and place, the course then examine irrigation systems, water supply systems, broadens out to consider how musicians have been and ways of life surrounding water sources known affected by and/or responded to important global from ethnographic studies, history, and problems like slavery, sexual violence, climate archaeological excavations. These data will allow us change and other ecological disasters, like Hurricane to engage with debates in Middle Eastern Katrina. Regions to be considered in our lectures anthropology, including those concerning the and/or readings include: Afghanistan, , relationship between water and political power, the (including Kurdish music), -Palestine, Sri Lanka, environment in which the world's earliest cities the Maldives, Myanmar/Burma, Uganda, Sierra arose, and the relevance of "lessons of the past" for Leone, North and South Korea, the Marshall Islands, present and potential future water crises and "water Cambodia, Mexico, and the . wars." In our final weeks, we will discuss archaeology and historical anthropology's Taught by: Sykes contribution to conceptions of water "sustainability" Course usually offered in Spring term and examine attempts to revive traditional/ancient Also Offered As: MUSC 053,NELC 054 technologies and attitudes about water. Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit For BA Students: Humanities and Social Science S Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Taught by: Hammer Course usually offered in Fall term ANTH 110 Water in the Middle East Throughout Also Offered As: NELC 111 History Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit Water scarcity is one of the most important Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences problems facing much of the Middle East and North Requirement Africa today. These are arid regions, but human and natural systems have interacted to determine ANTH 325 Who Owns the Past? Archaeology and course is proficiency-based, implying that all Politics in the Middle East activities within the course are aimed at placing you, the learner, in the context of the native-speaking This course explores the role of cultural heritage and environment from the very beginning. Evaluation is archaeological discoveries in the politics of the done by the more traditional testing methods Middle East from the nineteenth century to the (vocabulary tests, dictations, grammar and recent aftermath of the Arab Spring. We will explore translation exercises). We anticipate that by the end how modern Middle East populations relate to their of this course (ARAB 031) students will range in pasts and how archaeology and cultural heritage proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate Low on have been employed to support particular political the ACTFL scale; in other words (using the and social agendas, including colonialism, terminology of the government's Foreign Service nationalism, imperialism, and the construction of Institute), from 'incipient survival' to 'full' survival' in ethnic-religious identities. Although it was first the native-speaking environment. introduced to the Middle East as a colonial enterprise by European powers, archaeology For BA Students: Language Course became a pivotal tool for local populations of the Course usually offered in Fall term Middle East to construct new histories and identities Also Offered As: ARAB 631 during the post-World War I period of intensive Activity: Lecture nation-building after the dissolution of the Ottoman 1.0 Course Unit Empire. To understand this process, we will first look at the nineteenth-century establishment of ARAB 032 Elementary Arabic II archaeology by institutions like the Penn Museum. Then we will move on to individual case studies in This course is a continuation of ARAB 031/631. , Iraq, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Iran, and the republics of former Soviet Transcaucasia to look at For BA Students: Language Course the role of archaeology and cultural heritage in the Course usually offered in Spring term formation of these countries as modern nation- Also Offered As: ARAB 632 states with a shared identity among citizens. We will Prerequisite: ARAB 031 conclude with an examination of the recent impact Activity: Lecture of the Islamic State on material heritage in Syria and 1.0 Course Unit Iraq, the changing attitudes of Middle Eastern countries toward foreign museums, and the role of ARAB 033 Intermediate Arabic III UNESCO in defining Middle Eastern sites of world heritage. The course will also include field trips to This is the continuation of the Elementary course in the Penn Museum. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This course is also proficiency-based, implying that all activities within For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector the course are aimed at placing you, the learner, in Taught by: Hammer the context of the native-speaking environment Course usually offered in Fall term from the very beginning. This is the continuation of Also Offered As: NELC 325 ARAB031 and ARAB 032, the elementary course in Activity: Seminar Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This course is also 1.0 Course Unit proficiency-based, implying that all activities within Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences the course are aimed at placing you, the learner, in Requirement the context of the native-speaking environment from the very beginning. As in ARAB 031-032, Arabic evaluation is done by the more traditional testing methods (vocabulary tests, grammar and translation ARAB 031 Elementary Arabic I exercises). We anticipate that students range from This is the beginner’s course in Modern Standard Intermediate Low to Intermediate High according to Arabic (MSA). It will introduce you to the speaking, the ACTFL scale. listening, reading and writing skills in the standard means of communication in the Arab World. The For BA Students: Language Course Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: ARAB 633 designed to give the student experience in reading Prerequisites: ARAB 032or equivalent. whole works in Arabic and giving reports on them. Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Course usually offered in Fall term ARAB 034 Intermediate Arabic IV Also Offered As: ARAB 637 Prerequisites: ARAB 036/636 or permission of the This course is a continuation of ARAB 033/633. instructor. For BA Students: Last Language Course Activity: Lecture Course usually offered in Spring term 1.0 Course Unit Also Offered As: ARAB 634 Prerequisite: ARAB 033 ARAB 039 Colloquial Arabic Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit A one-semester, introductory course to the spoken Arabic of one of the regions of the Arab world, ARAB 035 Advanced Intermediate Arabic I chosen according to the dialect of instructor.

This is a proficiency-based course which continues For BA Students: Advanced Language Course from the first intermediate course, ARAB 033/034. Course usually offered in Spring term Emphasis continues to be on all four language skills: Also Offered As: ARAB 639 Speaking, Listening, Reading, & Writing. The readings Prerequisite: ARAB 032 for the class are chosen from actual texts from both Activity: Lecture medieval and modern Arabic in a variety of fields 1.0 Course Unit and subjects. Students will be expected to give classroom presentations and to write short essays in ARAB 041 Beginning Arabic I (ARAB 031) Arabic. Evaluation will be both Achievement- and proficiency- based. This is a beginner course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It will introduce you to the speaking, For BA Students: Advanced Language Course listening, reading, and writing skills in the standard Course usually offered in Fall term means of communication in the Arab world. The Also Offered As: ARAB 635 course is proficiency-based, implying that all Prerequisite: ARAB 034 activities are aimed at placing you, the learner, in the Activity: Lecture context of the native-speaking environment from 1.0 Course Unit the very beginning. Evaluation is done by the more traditional testing methods (vocabulary tests, ARAB 036 Advanced Intermediate Arabic II dictations, grammar and translation exercises). We anticipate that by the end of this course (ARAB 041) This course is a continuation of ARAB 035/635. students will range in proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate Low on the ACTFL scale; in other For BA Students: Advanced Language Course words (using the terminology of the government's Course usually offered in Spring term Foreign Service Institute), from 'incipient survival' to Also Offered As: ARAB 636 'full' survival' in the native-speaking environment. Prerequisite: ARAB 035 Activity: Lecture Course usually offered in Fall term 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit ARAB 037 Advanced Arabic and Syntax I Notes: See the LPS Course Guide. **This course does not fulfill the College/Wharton language Advanced syntax through the reading of Arab requirement. grammarians. Development of reading in bulk. Emphasis on classical Arabic read in works by ARAB 042 Beginning Arabic II (ARAB 032) medieval and modern writers. This course is For BA Students: Language Course student in the context of the native-speaking Course usually offered in Spring term environment from the very beginning. Evaluation is Prerequisites: ARAB 041or permission of the done by the more traditional testing methods instructor. (vocabulary tests, dictations, grammar and Activity: Lecture translation exercises). We anticipate that by the end 1.0 Course Unit of this course (ARAB 041) students will range in Notes: See the LPS Course Guide. **This course does proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate Low on not fulfill the College language requirement. the ACTFL scale; in other words (using the terminology of the government's Foreign Service ARAB 043 Continuing Arabic III (ARAB 033) Institute) 'survival' to 'full survival' in the native- speaking environment. This is the continuation of ARAB041 and ARAB 042, the elementary course in Modern Standard Arabic For BA Students: Language Course (MSA). This course is also proficiency-based, Course usually offered Summer term only implying that all activities within the course are Activity: Lecture aimed at placing you, the learner, in the context of 2.0 Course Units the native-speaking environment from the very Notes: Offered through the College of Liberal and beginning. As in ARAB 041-042, evaluation is done by Professional Studies Summer Session I. the more traditional testing methods (vocabulary tests, grammar and translation exercises). ARAB 133 Intensive Intermediate Arabic I&II Completion of this course fulfills the College of Liberal and Professional Studies language This is a six-week intensive course offered in the requirement in Arabic but not for the School of Arts summer through LPS; see the Penn Summer Course and Sciences. However, it should be emphasized that Guide. This is the continuation of ARAB031-32 or you will need a longer period of study to achieve ARAB 131, the elementary course in Modern proficiency in Arabic. We anticipate that students Standard Arabic (MSA). This course is also range from Intermediate Low to Intermediate High proficiency-based, implying that all activities within according to the ACTFL scale. the course are aimed at placing the student in the context of the native-speaking environment from Course usually offered in Fall term the very beginning. As in ARAB 031-032 or ARAB Activity: Lecture 131, evaluation is done by the more traditional 1.0 Course Unit testing methods (vocabulary tests, grammar and Notes: See the CLPS Course Guide. **This course translation exercises). Completion of this course does not fulfill the College language requirement. fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences language requirement in Arabic. However, it should be ARAB 044 Continuing Arabic IV (ARAB 034) emphasized that the student will need a longer period of study to achieve proficiency in Arabic. We Course usually offered in Spring term anticipate that students range from Intermediate Prerequisites: ARAB 043 or permission of the Low to Intermediate High according to the ACTFL instructor See the LPS Course Guide. ] scale. Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit For BA Students: Last Language Course Notes: See the LPS Course Guide. **This course does Course usually offered Summer term only not fulfill the College language requirement. Activity: Lecture 2.0 Course Units ARAB 131 Intensive Elementary Arabic I&II Notes: Offered through the College of Liberal and Professional Studies Summer Session I. This is a six-week intensive beginners' course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It will introduce the ARAB 135 Intensive Advanced Intermediate Arabic student to speaking, listening, reading, and writing I&II skills in the standard means of communication in the Arabic world. The course is proficiency-based, This is a six-week intensive course offered in the implying that all activities are aimed at placing the summer through LPS; see Penn Summer Course Guide. It continues from the first intermediate ARAB 331 Advanced Spoken Standard Arabic course, ARAB 033/034 or ARAB 133. Emphasis continues to be on all four language skills: speaking, The course will concentrate on the reading and listening, reading, and writing. Students will be speaking skills at the advanced level. Students will be expected to give classroom presentations and to assigned reading and audio-visual materials on write short essays in Arabic. Evaluation will be both which to prepare oral classroom presentations. Final achievement-based and proficiency-based. There is examination in the course will be based on no Oral Proficiency Interview at the end of this performance in the oral proficiency interview. session, but we anticipate that by the end of this, third year students will range in proficiency from For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Intermediate High to Advanced Mid on the ACTFL One-term course offered either term scale. Also Offered As: ARAB 531 Prerequisite: ARAB 036/636 For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Activity: Lecture Course usually offered Summer term only 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture 2.0 Course Units ARAB 333 Readings in the Qur'an and Tafsir Notes: Offered through the College of Liberal and Professional Studies Summer Session I. This course has two goals: to introduce undergraduate students to reading the Qur'an in ARAB 180 Arabic in Residence Arabic, and to enhance the speaking, listening, and writing skills in MSA. Through the reading and study The Arabic House is dedicated to practicing Modern of selected major Qur'anic narratives and Standard Arabic outside of the classroom setting. commentary (tafsir), students will become familiar The group meets two evenings per week for an hour with Qur'anic vocabulary, style, recitation practices, of conversation practice, snacks, and mint tea. and other intricacies of the Qur'anic text. All Conversations are both casual and group-led. students will also memorize a short sura of their Members are encouraged to bring any questions choice and practice reciting it in an aesthetically about their homework from class or about the appropriate manner (typically suras 1, 112, 113, or Arabic language in general. Most activities are held 114). Taught in MSA with writing assignments in in the Greenhouse of the Class of 1925 building MSA. located at 3941 Irving Street. Additional cultural activities may take place in Gregory, elsewhere at Taught by: Lowry Penn or throughout Philadelphia. All students and Course offered spring; even-numbered years Arabic enthusiasts, whether graduate or Prerequisites: ARAB 35 or permission of the undergraduate, first-semester beginners or native instructor. speakers, are welcome to attend. Dedicated Activity: Seminar undergraduate students may choose to enroll for 1.0 Course Unit credit (Arabic 180). Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement

Course usually offered in Spring term ARAB 432 Arabic Readings in Belles-Lettres Activity: Seminar 0.5 Course Units This course aims to improve reading skills and vocabulary by introducing students to extensive ARAB 235 The Adab Tradition passages taken from a variety of Arabic literary genres from all periods. Taught in MSA with writing Taught by: Fakhreddine, H. assignments in MSA. Course not offered every year Also Offered As: ARAB 735 Course usually offered in Fall term Activity: Seminar Also Offered As: COML 432 1.0 Course Unit Prerequisite: Proficiency in ARAB 036/636 Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit Course usually offered in Fall term during even- Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement numbered years Prerequisites: Completion of ARAB 036/636 ARAB 433 Arabic Readings in the Social Sciences Advanced Intermediate Arabic; or permission of the and the Media instructor. Activity: Seminar This course trains students to be proficient with 1.0 Course Unit written materials and media in MSA. This class will Notes: May be taken twice for credit with instructors explore the Middle East through timely analysis of Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement permission. Arabic media as well as original analysis of the ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious ARAB 437 History & Fiction in Arabic background to current events, including the Arab Spring and its aftermath. It is intended that, upon Activity: Seminar completion of this course, students will be able to 1.0 Course Unit work independently with a variety of media texts at Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement different levels. Taught in MSA with writing assignments in MSA. ARAB 531 Advanced Spoken Standard Arabic

Course usually offered in Spring term during odd- The course will concentrate on the reading and numbered years speaking skills at the advanced level. Students will be Prerequisites: Completion of ARAB 036/636 or assigned reading and audio-visual materials on permission of the instructor. which to prepare oral classroom presentations. Final Activity: Lecture examination in the course will be based on 1.0 Course Unit performance in the oral proficiency interview. Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Taught in MSA with writing assignments in MSA. Requirement For BA Students: Advanced Language Course ARAB 434 Readings in Arabic Literature Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: ARAB 331 Course not offered every year Prerequisite: ARAB 036/636 Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Arabic Activity: Lecture Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement ARAB 532 Advanced Arabic Composition

ARAB 436 Introduction to Pre-Modern Arabic Texts Development of writing skills within a variety of subjects. Extensive readings in various prose This course aims to provide incoming graduate techniques and a thorough review of Arabic students and advanced undergraduate students with grammar. an introduction to issues in Arabic grammar and Prerequisite(s): ARAB 036/636. syntax that commonly arise in pre-modern Arabic texts. Students will also be introduced to, and ARAB 533 Readings in Islamic Law expected to consult, the standard reference works used as aids in reading such texts. Students will be Taught by: Lowry expected to prepare a text or set of texts assigned by Course not offered every year the instructor for each session. It is intended that, Prerequisites: Completion of ARAB036/636 or upon completion of this course, students will be able permission of the instructor. to work independently with a wide variety of pre- Activity: Seminar modern Arabic texts. Although the texts in this 1.0 Course Unit course are pre-modern, the course reinforces MSA reading skills. ARAB 534 Arabic: Reading Historical Manuscripts

Taught by: Lowry Arabic language is used by many societies not only in Arabia is the Red Sea. Arabic is the official language communication but also in correspondence and in of the , and Sudanese pidgin Arabic (Juba documenting the affairs of their daily lives. Arabic Arabic) is widely used in the southern part of the script is adopted by many groups who native country. Sudanese colloquial Arabic has close languages are not Arabic, in writing their language resemblance to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and before some moved to the Roman alphabet. In many Classical Arabic. Sudanese Colloquial Arabic is historical documents specific style of writing and mutually intelligible with Arabic dialects spoken in handwriting are dominant. This specificity is Eritrea, Chad, and Nigeria. This course will focus on influenced by the dialectical variations, the historical the following four language skills: 1- Speaking: development of each region and the level of Arabic Conversing in Sudanese Arabic in various contexts. 2- literacy and use. Reading & Writing: Reading and writing of Sudanese Arabic texts. 3- Listening: Listening to various audio Taught by: Dinar recordings of Sudanese Arabic in different forms and Course not offered every year settings. Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit Also offered as: AFST 559 Course usually offered in Spring term ARAB 548 Sudanese Arabic I Instructor: ALI-DINAR, ALI

Sudan is a country with a rich history and diverse ARAB 580 Reading Arabic Manuscript cultures and people. Sudan is surrounded by nine countries. Two of Sudan's neighbors have Arabic as Course usually offered in Fall term their official language (Egypt & Libya). While in neighboring Chad and Eritrea, Arabic is widely ARAB 631 Elementary Arabic I spoken. The only barrier that divides Sudan from Arabia is the Red Sea. Arabic is the official language This is the beginner’s course in Modern Standard of the Sudan, and Sudanese pidgin Arabic (Juba Arabic (MSA). It will introduce you to the speaking, Arabic) is widely used in the southern part of the listening, reading and writing skills in the standard country. Sudanese colloquial Arabic has close means of communication in the Arab World. The resemblance to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and course is proficiency-based, implying that all Classical Arabic. Sudanese colloquial Arabic is also activities within the course are aimed at placing you, spoken and is intelligible in Eritrea, Chad, Nigeria and the learner, in the context of the native-speaking many places in West Africa. This course will focus on environment from the very beginning. Evaluation is speaking, listening, reading, & writing Sudanese done by the more traditional testing methods Arabic through the following: 1- Speaking: (vocabulary tests, dictations, grammar and Conversing in Sudanese Arabic in various settings. 2- translation exercises). We anticipate that by the end Reading & Writing: Reading and writing of Sudanese of this course (ARAB 002) students will range in Arabic Texts. 3- Listening: Listening to various audio proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate Low on recordings of Sudanese Arabic in different forms and the ACTFL scale; in other words (using the settings. terminology of the government's Foreign Service Institute), from 'incipient survival' to 'full' survival' in Also offered as: AFST 558 the native-speaking environment. Course usually offered in Fall term Instructor: ALI-DINAR, ALI For BA Students: Language Course Course usually offered in Fall term ARAB 549 Sudanese Arabic II Also Offered As: ARAB 031 Prerequisites: For the second semester: completion Sudan is a country with a rich history and diverse of the first semester or permission of the instructor. cultures and people. Sudan is surrounded by nine Activity: Lecture countries. Two of Sudan's neighbors have Arabic as 1.0 Course Unit their official language (Egypt & Libya). Also, in neighboring Chad and Eritrea, Arabic is widely ARAB 632 Elementary Arabic II spoken. The only barrier that divides Sudan from This course is a continuation of ARAB 031/631. and subjects. Students will be expected to give For BA Students: Language Course classroom presentations and to write short essays in Course usually offered in Spring term Arabic. Evaluation will be both Achievement- and Also Offered As: ARAB 032 proficiency- based. Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit Course usually offered in Fall term For BA Students: Advanced Language Course ARAB 633 Intermediate Arabic III Also Offered As: ARAB 035 Prerequisites: ARAB 033or permission of instructor. This is the continuation of the Elementary course in Activity: Lecture Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This course is also 1.0 Course Unit proficiency-based, implying that all activities within the course are aimed at placing you, the learner, in ARAB 636 Advanced Intermediate Arabic II the context of the native-speaking environment from the very beginning. This is the continuation of This course is a continuation of ARAB 035/635. ARAB031 and ARAB 032, the elementary course in For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This course is also Course usually offered in Spring term proficiency-based, implying that all activities within Also Offered As: ARAB 036 the course are aimed at placing you, the learner, in Activity: Lecture the context of the native-speaking environment 1.0 Course Unit from the very beginning. As in ARAB 031-032, evaluation is done by the more traditional testing ARAB 637 Advanced Arabic and Syntax I methods (vocabulary tests, grammar and translation exercises). We anticipate that students range from Advanced syntax through the reading of Arab Intermediate Low to Intermediate High according to grammarians. Development of reading in bulk. the ACTFL scale. Emphasis on classical Arabic read in works by medieval and modern writers. This course is For BA Students: Language Course designed to give the student experience in reading Course usually offered in Fall term whole works in Arabic and giving reports on them. Also Offered As: ARAB 033 Prerequisites: ARAB 033or equivalent. For the For BA Students: Advanced Language Course second semester: completion of the first semester or One-term course offered either term permission of the instructor Also Offered As: ARAB 037 Activity: Lecture Prerequisites: ARAB 036/636 or permission of the 1.0 Course Unit instructor. Activity: Lecture ARAB 634 Intermediate Arabic IV 1.0 Course Unit

This course is a continuation of ARAB 033/633. ARAB 639 Colloquial Arabic For BA Students: Last Language Course Course usually offered in Spring term A one-semester, introductory course to the spoken Also Offered As: ARAB 034 Arabic of one of the regions of the Arab world, Activity: Lecture chosen according to the dialect of instructor. 1.0 Course Unit Course not offered every year, usually in Spring term ARAB 635 Advanced Intermediate Arabic I Also Offered As: ARAB 039 Activity: Lecture This is a proficiency-based course which continues 1.0 Course Unit from the first intermediate course, ARAB 033/034. Emphasis continues to be on all four language skills: ARAB 731 Topics in Islamic Studies Speaking, Listening, Reading, & Writing. The readings for the class are chosen from actual texts from both Topics vary from year to year in accordance with the medieval and modern Arabic in a variety of fields interests and needs of students. Although this course typically focuses on premodern Arabic texts, This is a survey of pre-modern Arabic prose. the readings reinforce MSA reading skills. Selections will be made from major books of Adab, compilations of akhb r, the Qur n, the s rah, and Taught by: Lowry critical treatise. Readings will be accompanied by Course not offered every year excerpts from modern critical scholarship on the Activity: Seminar topic in Arabic. The class is taught in MSA with oral 1.0 Course Unit presentations and writing assignments in MSA. Notes: ARAB 436 or equivalent Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Taught by: Fakhreddine Course not offered every year ARAB 733 Arabic Texts in Islamic History Also Offered As: ARAB 235 Activity: Seminar This is a graduate seminar course in which different 1.0 Course Unit genres of premodern Arabic texts are covered at the Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement advanced graduate level. Students in this course are expected to be able to read and prepare (vowel, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean parse, and translate) passages from Arabic texts on a World weekly basis and to be able to discuss them critically during the class itself. Topics are chosen to reflect student interest. Recent and potential topics include: AAMW 737 Islamic Architecture Geographers and travel accounts; biographical dictionaries; chronicles; heresiography; poetry; This seminar will address the problems of studying memoir and sira. Although this course typically architecture in the Islamic world. Considered will be issues of architectural design, regional and trans- focuses on premodern Arabic texts, the readings reinforce MSA reading skills. regional constructional traditions, structural know- how and innovation, patronage and use. The Taught by: Cobb examples discussed will be mainly religious and Course not offered every year social service complexes. Attention will be paid to Prerequisites: ARAB 036 or permission of the the manner of transmission of architectural design instructor. knowledge and constructional skill. Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Holod Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Course offered in Fall and Summer terms Also Offered As: ARTH 737 ARAB 734 Selected Topics in Arabic Literature Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement This is a survey of Arabic poetry from the Pre-Islamic era until today. Readings will be selected to trace major thematic and formal developments in Arabic Cinema Studies poetry. Readings also include excerpts from modern critical scholarship on the topic in Arabic. The class CIMS 036 The Middle East through Many Lenses aims to introduce students to the basics of academic research and writing in Arabic. The class is taught in This freshman seminar introduces the contemporary MSA with oral presentations and writing Middle East by drawing upon cutting-edge studies assignments in MSA. written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. These include history, political science, and Taught by: Fakhreddine anthropology, as well as studies of mass media, Course not offered every year sexuality, religion, urban life, and the environment. Activity: Seminar We will spend the first few weeks of the semester 1.0 Course Unit surveying major trends in modern Middle Eastern history. We will spend subsequent weeks intensively ARAB 735 The Adab Tradition discussing assigned readings along with documentary films that we will watch in class. The semester will leave students with both a foundation childhood; it discusses the authors and directors in Middle Eastern studies and a sense of current struggle to penetrate the psyche of a child and to directions in the field. retrieve fragments of past events.

Taught by: Sharkey H For BA Students: Arts and Letters Sector Course not offered every year Taught by: Gold Also Offered As: NELC 036 Course not offered every year Activity: Seminar Also Offered As: COML 282,JWST 154,NELC 159 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences 1.0 Course Unit Requirement Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement

CIMS 118 Iranian Cinema: Gender, Politics and CIMS 166 Arab/Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film Religion This course will explore the origins, the history and, This seminar explores Iranian culture, art, history most importantly, the literary and cinematic art of and politics through film in the contemporary era. the struggle that has endured for a century over the We will examine a variety of works that represent region that some call the Holy Land, some call Eretz the social, political, economic and cultural Israel and others call Palestine. We will also consider circumstances of post-revolutionary Iran. Along the religious motivations and interpretations that have way, we will discuss issues pertaining to gender, inspired many involved in this conflict as well as the religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and the function of political consequences of world wars that cinema in present day Iranian society. Films to be contributed so greatly to the reconfiguration of the discussed will be by internationally acclaimed Middle East after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, filmmakers, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen and after the revelations of the Holocaust in Makhmalbaf, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Tahmineh Western Europe. While we will rely on a textbook for Milani, Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi, among historical grounding. the most significant material others. we will use to learn this history will be films, novels, Taught by: Entezari and short stories. Can the arts lead us to a different Course usually offered in Fall term understanding of the lives lived through what seems Also Offered As: COML 120,GSWS 118,NELC like unending crisis? 118,NELC 618 Activity: Seminar Taught by: Troutt-Powell 1.0 Course Unit Course not offered every year Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Also Offered As: HIST 166, NELC 137 Activity: Lecture CIMS 159 Modern Hebrew Literature and Film in 1.0 Course Unit Translation: Autobiography Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement

This course examines cinematic and literary Communications portrayals of childhood. While Israeli works constitute more than half of the course's material, COMM 402 Arab Uprisings: Local and Global European film and fiction play comparative roles. Representations Many of the works are placed, and therefore discussed, against a backdrop of national or This course explores the Arab uprisings as a historical conflicts. Nonetheless, private traumas battleground where multiple narratives battle for (such as madness, abuse, or loss) or an adult longing visibility across a variety of media platforms. We will for an idealized time are often the central foci of the examine local and global representations of the stories. These issues and the nature of individual and popular movements that have swept Arab countries collective memory will be discussed from a since December 2010, analyzing different media, psychological point of view. Additionally, the course styles and modalities of representations. We will analyzes how film, poetry and prose use their focus among other things on social media, political respective languages to reconstruct the image of humor, graffiti, and the human body as instruments no previous knowledge of Hebrew. A grade of B- or of communication, and focus on various related higher is needed to proceed to HEBR 052, debates and polemics about the political impact of Elementary Modern Hebrew II. technology, the effectiveness of political satire, and the role of gender and sexuality in revolutionary For BA Students: Language Course politics. The overall approach of the course is One-term course offered either term critical/theoretical. Also Offered As: HEBR 651, JWST 051 Activity: Lecture Taught by: Kraidy 1.0 Course Unit Course not offered every year Activity: Seminar HEBR 052 Elementary Modern Hebrew II 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement A continuation of HEBR 051, First Year Modern Hebrew, which assumes basic skills of reading and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies speaking and the use of the present tense. Open to all students who have completed one semester of GSWS 118 Iranian Cinema: Gender, Politics and Hebrew at Penn with a grade of B- or above and new Religion students with equivalent competency.

This seminar explores Iranian culture, society, history For BA Students: Language Course and politics through the medium of film. We will One-term course offered either term examine a variety of cinematic works that represent Also Offered As: HEBR 652, JWST 052 the social, political, economic and cultural Prerequisite: HEBR 051 or permission of instructor circumstances of contemporary Iran, as well as the Activity: Lecture diaspora. Along the way, we will discuss issues 1.0 Course Unit pertaining to gender, religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and the role of cinema in Iranian society and beyond. HEBR 053 Intermediate Modern Hebrew III Discussions topics will also include the place of the Iranian diaspora in cinema, as well as the Development of the skills of reading, writing, and transnational production, distribution, and conversing in modern Hebrew on an intermediate consumption of Iranian cinema. Films will include level. Open to all students who have completed two those by internationally acclaimed filmmakers, such semesters of Hebrew at Penn with a grade of B- or as Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Asghar Farhadi, Bahman above and new students with equivalent Ghobadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, competency. Dariush Mehrjui, Tahmineh Milani, Jafar Panahi, Marjane Satrapi and others. All films will be subtitled For BA Students: Language Course in English. No prior knowledge is required. One-term course offered either term Also Offered As: HEBR 653, JWST 053 Taught by: Entezari Prerequisites: HEBR 052 or permission of the Course usually offered in the Spring term instructor. Also Offered As: CIMS 118, COML 120, NELC 118, Activity: Lecture NELC 618 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit HEBR 054 Intermediate Modern Hebrew IV Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement This course constitutes the final semester of Hebrew Intermediate Modern Hebrew. Hence, one of the main goals of the course is to prepare the students HEBR 051 Elementary Modern Hebrew I for the proficiency exam in Hebrew. Emphasis will be placed on grammar skills and ability to read literary texts. Open to all students who have completed An introduction to the skills of reading, writing, and conversing in modern Hebrew. This course assumes three semesters of Hebrew at Penn with a grade of B- or above and new students with equivalent competency. One-term course offered either term Also Offered As: HEBR 059, JWST 059 For BA Students: Last Language Course Prerequisite: HEBR 054 or permission of instructor One-term course offered either term Activity: Lecture Also Offered As: HEBR 654, JWST 054 1.0 Course Unit Prerequisite: HEBR 053 or permission of instructor Activity: Lecture HEBR 651 Elementary Modern Hebrew I 1.0 Course Unit An introduction to the skills of reading, writing, and HEBR 059 Advanced Modern Hebrew: Conversation conversing in Modern Hebrew. This course assumes & Writing no previous knowledge of Hebrew.

After four semesters of language study, it's time to For BA Students: Language Course enter the vibrant world of contemporary Israeli One-term course offered either term culture. In this course students read some of the Also Offered As: HEBR 051, JWST 051 best plays, poems, short stories, and journalism Activity: Lecture published in Israel today. They also watch and 1.0 Course Unit analyze some of Israel's most popular films, TV programs, and videos. Themes include Jewish-Arab HEBR 652 Elementary Modern Hebrew II relations, the founding of the State, family ties and intergenerational conflict, war and society, and the A continuation of HEBR 051, First Year Modern recent dynamic changes in Israel society. HEBR 054 Hebrew, which assumes basic skills of reading and or permission of instructor. Since the content of this speaking and the use of the present tense. Open to course may change from year to year, students may all students who have completed one semester of take it more than once (but only once for credit). Hebrew at Penn with a grade of B- or above and new students with equivalent competency. For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Taught by: Engel For BA Students: Language Course One-term course offered either term One-term course offered either term Also Offered As: HEBR 552, JWST 059 Also Offered As: HEBR 052, JWST 052 Prerequisite: HEBR 054 or permission of instructor Prerequisite: HEBR 651 or permission of instructor Activity: Lecture Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit

HEBR 552 Advanced Modern Hebrew: Conversation HEBR 653 Intermediate Modern Hebrew III & Writing Development of the skills of reading, writing, and After four semesters of language study, it's time to conversing in Modern Hebrew on an intermediate enter the vibrant world of contemporary Israeli level. Open to all students who have completed two culture. In this course students read some of the semesters of Hebrew at Penn with a grade of B- or best plays, poems, short stories, and journalism above and new students with equivalent published in Israel today. They also watch and competency. analyze some of Israel's most popular films, TV programs, and videos. Themes include Jewish-Arab For BA Students: Language Course relations, the founding of the State, family ties and One-term course offered either term intergenerational conflict, war and society, and the Also Offered As: HEBR 053, JWST 053 recent dynamic changes in Israel society. HEBR 054 Prerequisites: HEBR 652 or permission of the or permission of instructor. Since the content of this instructor. course may change from year to year, students may Activity: Lecture take it more than once (but only once for credit). 1.0 Course Unit

For BA Students: Advanced Language Course HEBR 654 Intermediate Modern Hebrew IV Taught by: Engel This course constitutes the final semester of 1.0 Course Unit Intermediate Modern Hebrew. Hence, one of the Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement main goals of the course is to prepare the students MMES Foundational Course for the proficiency exam in Hebrew. Emphasis will be placed on grammar skills and ability to read literary HIST 148 Warriors, Concubines & Converts: the texts. Open to all students who have completed Ottoman Empire in the Middle East & Europe three semesters of Hebrew at Penn with a grade of B- or above and new students with equivalent For almost six hundred years, the Ottomans ruled competency. most of the Balkans and the Middle East. From their bases in Anatolia, Ottoman armies advanced into the One-term course offered either term Balkans, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq, constantly Also Offered As: HEBR 054, JWST 054 challenging the borders of neighboring European Prerequisite: HEBR 653 or permission of instructor and Islamicate empires. By the end of the Activity: Lecture seventeenth century, Constantinople, Jerusalem, 1.0 Course Unit Cairo, Baghdad, Sarajevo, Budapest, and nearly Vienna came under Ottoman rule. As the empire HEBR 999 Independent Study expanded into Europe and the Middle East, the balance of imperial power shifted from warriors to Activity: Independent Study converts, concubines, and intellectuals. This course 1.0 Course Unit examines the expansion of the Ottoman sultanate from a local principality into a sprawling empire with History a sophisticated bureaucracy; it also investigates the social, cultural, and intellectual developments that HIST 023 Intro to Middle East accompanied the long arc of the empire's rise and fall. By the end of the course, students will be able to Course usually offered in Spring term identify and discuss major currents of change in the For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. The student Also Offered As: NELC 102 will have a better understanding of the roles of Activity: Lecture power, ideology, diplomacy, and gender in the 1.0 Course Unit construction of empire and a refined appreciation for diverse techniques of historical analysis. HIST 081 History of the Middle East Since 1800 For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector A survey of the modern Middle East with special Taught by: Aguirre-Mandujano emphasis on the experiences of ordinary men and Course usually offered in Fall term women as articulated in biographies, novels, and Also Offered As: NELC 148 regional case studies. Issues covered include the Activity: Lecture collapse of empires and the rise of a new state 1.0 Course Unit system following WWI, and the roots and Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences consequences of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Requirement Iranian revolution and the U.S.-Iraq War. Themes include: the colonial encounter with Europe and the HIST 166 Arab/Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film emergence of nationalist movements, the relationship between state and society, economic This course will explore the origins, the history and, development and international relations, and most importantly, the literary and cinematic art of religion and cultural identity. the struggle that has endured for a century over the region that some call the Holy Land, some call Eretz For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector Israel and others call Palestine. We will also consider Taught by: Kashani-Sabet/Troutt-Powell religious motivations and interpretations that have Course usually offered in Fall term inspired many involved in this conflict as well as the political consequences of world wars that Also Offered As: NELC 031 Activity: Lecture contributed so greatly to the reconfiguration of the Middle East after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and after the revelations of the Holocaust in Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Western Europe. While we will rely on a textbook for Requirement historical grounding. The most significant material we will use to learn this history will be films, novels, HIST 275 Faces of Jihad in African Islam and short stories. Can the arts lead us to a different understanding of the lives lived through what seems This course is designed to provide the students with like unending crisis? a broad understanding of the history of Islam in Africa. The focus will be mostly on West Africa, but Taught by: Troutt-Powell we will also look at developments in other regions of Course not offered every year the continent. We will explore Islam not only as Also Offered As: CIMS 166, NELC 137 religious practice but also as ideology and an Activity: Lecture instrument of social change. We will examine the 1.0 Course Unit process of islamization in Africa and the different Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement uses of Jihad. Topics include prophetic jihad, jihad of the pen and the different varieties of jihad of the HIST 188 Civilizations at Odds? The United States sword throughout the history in Islam in sub- and the Middle East Saharan Africa.

Foe or friend, Satan or saint - America has often been depicted in the Middle East either as a Taught by: Babou benevolent superpower or an ill-meaning enemy. In One-term course usually offered in Fall term America, too, stereotypes of the Middle East abound Also Offered As: AFRC 274 as the home of terrorists, falafels, and fanatics. This Activity: Lecture undergraduate lecture course will explore the 1.0 Course Unit relationship between the United States and the Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Middle East by moving beyond such facile Requirement stereotypes. Our goal is to understand why a century of interaction has done little to foster greater HIST 306 Gunpowder, Art and Diplomacy: Islamic understanding between these two societies. By Empires in the Early Modern World reading novels, memoirs, and historical accounts, we will examine the origins of this cultural and In the sixteenth century, the political landscape of diplomatic encounter in the twentieth century. The the Middle East, Central Asia, and India changed readings will shed light on America's political and with the expansion and consolidation of new Islamic economic involvement in the Middle East after the empires. Gunpowder had transformed the modes of Second World War. We will consider the impact of warfare. Diplomacy followed new rules and forms of oil diplomacy on U.S.-Middle East relations, as well legitimation. The widespread use of Persian, Arabic as the role of ideology and religion, in our effort to and Turkish languages across the region allowed for comprehend the current challenges that face these an interconnected world of scholars, merchants, and societies. diplomats. And each imperial court, those of the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals, found Taught by: Kashani-Sabet innovative and original forms of expression in art Course not offered every year and literature. The expansion of these Islamic Also Offered As: NELC 188 empires, each of them military giants and Activity: Lecture behemoths of bureaucracy, marked a new phase in 1.0 Course Unit world history. The course is divided in four sections. Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences The first section introduces the student to major Requirement debates about the so-called gunpowder empires of the Islamic world as well as to comparative HIST 232 Israel and Iran approaches to study them. The second section focuses on the transformations of modes of warfare Taught by: Kashani-Sabet/Tam and military organization. The third section considers Activity: Seminar the cultural history and artistic production of the Cross Listed: HIST 232 imperial courts of the Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids. The fourth and final section relationship between African and Middle-Eastern investigates the social histories of these empires, countries, from Uganda to Ethiopia, from OPEC to their subjects, and the configuration of a world both Darfur. The course will pay close attention to connected and divided by commerce, expansion, migrations through the regions, whether forced or and diplomacy. economic or religious. Whenever possible we will explore, through film and literature, how people in Taught by: Mandujano Africa and the Middle East see their connections, Course usually offered in Spring term and their differences. Also Offered As: NELC 306 Activity: Lecture Taught by: Troutt-Powell 1.0 Course Unit Course not offered every year Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Also Offered As: AFRC 372, NELC 334 Requirement Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit HIST 370 North Africa: History, Culture, Society Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Requirement This interdisciplinary seminar aims to introduce students to the countries of North Africa, with a focus on the Maghreb and Libya (1830-present). It International Relations does so while examining the region's close economic and cultural connections to sub-Saharan Africa, INTR 290 Topics in International Relations Europe, and the Middle East. Readings will include histories, political analyses, anthropological studies, Topics in International Relations focuses on and novels, and will cover a wide range of topics specialized issues, practical or applied approaches, such as colonial and postcolonial experiences, policy and other topics of contemporary relevance in developments in Islamic thought and practice, and modern study of international relations. These are labor migration. This class is intended for juniors, experimental or occasionally offered classes. Past seniors, and graduate students. topics have included US Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring, the Iraq Wars, Secret Intelligence & American Democracy, Counterintelligence, Homeland Security, Taught by: Sharkey the US & South Asia Cold War and New Alignments, Course usually offered in Spring term and Think Tanks and Global Governance. Also Offered As: AFRC 332, AFRC 632, NELC 332,

NELC 632 One-term course offered either term Activity: Seminar Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences (Prior Approval from MEC Required for MMES Requirement Credit) HIST 371 Africa and the Mid-East

This seminar will explore the historical relationship between these two regions from the early modern age to the present. We will examine the history of JWST 041 Israel in Middle East trade, particularly the slave trade, and its cultural and political legacy. We will compare the This introductory level course will offer an in-depth experiences of European imperialism--how the look at Israeli history and society, and how it relates scramble for Africa dovetailed with the last decades to the Middle East through varying lenses. We will of the Ottoman Empire--with an eye to how this consider such topics as the rise of Jewish, shaped nationalist movements in both regions. The Palestinian, and Arab nationalisms in the context of course will also explore the decades of changing imperial control over Palestine/Israel (from independence with a special eye towards pan- Ottoman to British), and the emergence of the Africanism and pan-Arabism. We will also study the Middle East in its current borders; Conflict and ramifications of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the conflict-resolution in Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East; Israel's Palestinian minority, Jewish Development of the skills of reading, writing, and immigrants to Israel from the Middle East, food and conversing in modern Hebre on an intermediate music culture in Israel, and their connection to the level. Open to all students who have completed two Middle East; or the place of the Middle East in Israeli semesters of Hebrew at Penn with a grade of B- or literature and film. We will use cutting edge research above and new students with equivalent from several disciplines, as well as literature, film, competency. audio, and photographic evidence. Students will leave the class with a firm grasp of Israeli history and For BA Students: Language Course society, and will be widely familiar with the different One-term course offered either term narratives, viewpoints, and complexities concerning Also Offered As: HEBR 053, HEBR 653 Israel and its position in the Middle East. Prior Prerequisites: HEBR 052 or permission of the knowledge of Israeli or Middle Eastern history is not instructor. required. Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Tam Course usually taught in Fall term JWST 054 Intermediate Modern Hebrew IV Also Offered As: JWST 041 Activity: Seminar This course constitutes the final semester of 1.0 Course Unit Intermediate Modern Hebrew. Hence, one of the Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences main goals of the course is to prepare the students Requirement for the proficiency exam in Hebrew. Emphasis will be

placed on grammar skills and ability to read literary JWST 051 Elementary Modern Hebrew I texts. Open to all students who have completed

three semesters of Hebrew at Penn with a grade of An introduction to the skills of reading, writing, and B- or above and new students with equivalent conversing in modern Hebrew. This course assumes competency. no previous knowledge of Hebrew.

For BA Students: Language Course For BA Students: Last Language Course Two terms. student may enter either term. One-term course offered either term Also Offered As: HEBR 051, HEBR 651 Also Offered As: HEBR 054, HEBR 654 Prerequisites: HEBR 053 or permission of instructor. Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit JWST 052 Elementary Modern Hebrew II JWST 059 Advanced Modern Hebrew: Conversation & Writing A continuation of HEBR 051, First Year Modern Hebrew, which assumes basic skills of reading and speaking and the use of the present tense. Open to After four semesters of language study, it's time to all students who have completed one semester of enter the vibrant world of contemporary Israeli Hebrew at Penn with a grade of B- or above and new culture. In this course students read some of the students with equivalent competency. best plays, poems, short stories, and journalism published in Israel today. They also watch and analyze some of Israel's most popular films, TV For BA Students: Language Course programs, and videos. Themes include Jewish-Arab Two terms. student may enter either term. relations, the founding of the State, family ties and Also Offered As: HEBR 052, HEBR 652 intergenerational conflict, war and society, and the Prerequisite: HEBR 051 or permission of instructor recent dynamic changes in Israel society. HEBR 054 Activity: Lecture or permission of instructor. Since the content of this 1.0 Course Unit course may change from year to year, students may take it more than once (but only once for credit). JWST 053 Intermediate Modern Hebrew III For BA Students: Advanced Language Course JWST 154 Modern Hebrew Literature and Film in Taught by: Engel Translation: Autobiography One-term course offered either term Also Offered As: HEBR 059, HEBR 552 This course examines cinematic and literary Prerequisite: HEBR 054 or permission of instructor portrayals of childhood. While Israeli works Activity: Lecture constitute more than half of the course's material, 1.0 Course Unit European film and fiction play comparative roles. Many of the works are placed, and therefore discussed, against a backdrop of national or JWST 122 Religions of the West historical conflicts. Nonetheless, private traumas (such as madness, abuse, or loss) or an adult s This course surveys the intertwined histories of longing for an idealized time are often the central Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will focus on the foci of the stories. These issues and the nature of shared stories which connect these three traditions, individual and collective memory will be discussed and the ways in which communities distinguished from a psychological point of view. Additionally, the themselves in such shared spaces. We will mostly course analyzes how film, poetry and prose use their survey literature, but will also address material respective languages to reconstruct the image of culture and ritual practice, to seek answers to the childhood; it discusses the authors and directors following questions: How do myths emerge? What struggle to penetrate the psyche of a child and to do stories do? What is the relationship between retrieve fragments of past events. religion and myth-making? What is scripture, and what is its function in creating religious For BA Students: Arts and Letters Sector communities? How do communities remember and Taught by: Gold forget the past? Through which lenses and with One-term course offered either term which tools do we define "the West"? Also Offered As: CIMS 159, COML 282, NELC 159 Activity: Lecture For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Durmaz Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement One-term course offered either term Also Offered As: RELS 002 JWST 248 Arab Israeli Relations Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit One-term course offered either term Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Also Offered As: PSCI 251 Activity: Recitation JWST 141 The Israeli Soul: Religion and Psychology 1.0 Course Unit in Modern Israel Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Requirement This course aims to introduce what it means to be an Israeli today by exploring how Israeli identity relates JWST 270 Middle Eastern in Israel to politics, religion, violence and trauma. Taught by an anthropologist, the course is focused on being This undergraduate seminar offers an in-depth look Israeli not as a national identity but as a at the history of Middle Eastern and North African psychological experience, and aims to illumine the Jews, focusing in particular on their place in Israeli religious, cultural, social and political forces that are society and culture. It will begin with a historical shaping that experience. background on the Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine, and in the larger Ottoman Empire, Iran, Taught by: Friedman-Peleg and . We will then proceed to consider the Course not offered every year engagement of these Jewish communities with Also Offered As: RELS 141 Zionism, and with other conflicting forces, such as Activity: Seminar European colonialism, Arab nationalism, and 1.0 Course Unit Cosmopolitanism. We will learn about Jewish Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement immigration from the region to Palestine/Israel in the period between 1880 to 1948, and about their instructor's evaluation exodus/expulsion post-1948. We will then explore in Activity: Seminar depth their settlement in Israel: governmental 1.0 Course Unit policies towards Jewish immigrants from the Islamic Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement World, especially between the 1950s and the 1970s; their integration in Israeli society; identity politics in Music Israel (or: the "invention" of "Mizrahim"); Mizrahi political action; Mizrahi music, film, literature, and food culture; and Mizrahi attitudes towards , MUSC 053 Music in Troubled Places both within and outside Israel. Students will leave the class with a firm grasp of the social and cultural In this class, we go beyond the headlines to discuss history of Middle Eastern Jews in Israel, and the the history and cultures of peoples who have had to issues facing third-generation Mizrahim in Israel endure terrible suffering, particularly through ethnic today. Students will also be introduced to basic conflict and civil war. We will focus on a curious methods of inquiry in history, sociology, phenomenon: populations typically defined as anthropology, and . Students will separate from one another (e.g., Israelis and engage with a mix of scholarly research, readings in Palestinians) often have a history of shared or original documents, film, literature, music, and some related cultural practices, of which music is a prime material and visual artifacts. example. We will survey a number of current and recent conflict zones and use music as a way to Taught by: Alon Tam deepen our understanding of the identities and Also Offered As: NELC 260 relationships between the peoples involved Activity: Seminar including through a consideration of my own 1.0 Course Unit fieldwork in Sri Lanka. Querying the very definitions Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences of music, trouble, and place, the course then Requirement broadens out to consider how musicians have been affected by and/or responded to important global JWST 359 Seminar in Modern Hebrew Literature problems like slavery, sexual violence, climate change and other ecological disasters, like Hurricane This course introduces students to selections from Katrina. Regions to be considered in our lectures the best literary works written in Hebrew over the and/or readings include: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria last hundred years in a relaxed seminar (including Kurdish musics), Israel-Palestine, Sri Lanka, environment. The goal of the course is to develop the Maldives, Myanmar/Burma, Uganda, Sierra skills in critical reading of literature in general, and to Leone, North and South Korea, the Marshall Islands, examine how Hebrew authors grapple with crucial Cambodia, Mexico, and the United States. questions of human existence and national identity. Topics include: Hebrew classics and their modern Taught by: Sykes "descendants," autobiography in poetry and fiction, Course not offered every year the conflict between literary generations, and Also Offered As: ANTH 053, NELC 054 others. Because the content of this course changes Activity: Lecture from year to year, students may take it for credit 1.0 Course Unit more than once. This course is conducted in Hebrew Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement and all readings are in Hebrew. Grading is based primarily on participation and students' literary Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations understanding. NELC 031 History of the Middle East Since 1800 For BA Students: Arts and Letters Sector Taught by: Gold A survey of the modern Middle East with special Course usually offered in spring term emphasis on the experiences of ordinary men and Also Offered As: COML 359, JWST 659, NELC 359, women as articulated in biographies, novels, and NELC 659 regional case studies. Issues covered include the Prerequisites: Hebrew 059 or the equivalent, per collapse of empires and the rise of a new state system following WWI, and the roots and This freshman seminar introduces the contemporary consequences of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Middle East by drawing upon cutting-edge studies Iranian revolution and the U.S.-Iraq War. Themes written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. include: the colonial encounter with Europe and the These include history, political science, and emergence of nationalist movements, the anthropology, as well as studies of mass media, relationship between state and society, economic sexuality, religion, urban life, and the environment. development and international relations, and We will spend the first few weeks of the semester religion and cultural identity. surveying major trends in modern Middle Eastern history. We will spend subsequent weeks intensively For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector discussing assigned readings along with Taught by: Kashani-Sabet/Troutt-Powell documentary films that we will watch in class. The Course usually offered in Fall term semester will leave students with both a foundation Also Offered As: HIST 081 in Middle Eastern studies and a sense of current Activity: Lecture directions in the field. 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Taught by: Sharkey H Requirement Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: CIMS 036 NELC 034 Israel in the Middle East Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit This introductory level course will offer an in-depth Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement look at Israeli history and society, and how it relates to the Middle East through varying lenses. We will NELC 054 Music in Troubled Places consider such topics as the rise of Jewish, Palestinian, and Arab nationalisms in the context of In this class, we go beyond the headlines to discuss changing imperial control over Palestine/Israel (from the history and cultures of peoples who have had to Ottoman to British), and the emergence of the endure terrible suffering, particularly through ethnic Middle East in its current borders; Conflict and conflict and civil war. We will focus on a curious conflict-resolution in Israel, Palestine, and the phenomenon: populations typically defined as Middle East; Israel's Palestinian minority, Jewish separate from one another (e.g., Israelis and immigrants to Israel from the Middle East, food and Palestinians) often have a history of shared or music culture in Israel, and their connection to the related cultural practices, of which music is a prime Middle East; or the place of the Middle East in Israeli example. We will survey a number of current and literature and film. We will use cutting edge research recent conflict zones and use music as a way to from several disciplines, as well as literature, film, deepen our understanding of the identities and audio, and photographic evidence. Students will relationships between the peoples involved leave the class with a firm grasp of Israeli history and including through a consideration of my own society, and will be widely familiar with the different fieldwork in Sri Lanka. Querying the very definitions narratives, viewpoints, and complexities concerning of music, trouble, and place, the course then Israel and its position in the Middle East. Prior broadens out to consider how musicians have been knowledge of Israeli or Middle Eastern history is not affected by and/or responded to important global required. problems like slavery, sexual violence, climate change and other ecological disasters, like Hurricane Taught by: Tam Katrina. Regions to be considered in our lectures Course usually taught in Fall term and/or readings include: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria Also Offered As: JWST 041 (including Kurdish musics), Israel-Palestine, Sri Lanka, Activity: Seminar the Maldives, Myanmar/Burma, Uganda, Sierra 1.0 Course Unit Leone, North and South Korea, the Marshall Islands, Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Cambodia, Mexico, and the United States. Requirement Taught by: Sykes NELC 036 The Middle East through Many Lenses Course not offered every year Also Offered As: ANTH 053, MUSC 053 Activity: Lecture satellite imagery, and digital maps, in our quest to 1.0 Course Unit explore whether or not the past can inform present Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement efforts to better manage modern water resources. The course is structured in units focused on each of NELC 102 Introduction to the Middle East the major hydro-environmental zones of the Middle East: the river valleys of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and This is the second half of the Near East sequence. the Levant, the internal basins of western Central This course surveys Islamic civilization from circa 600 Asia and the Levant, the deserts of Arabia and North (the rise of Islam) to the start of the modern era and Africa, highland zones in Yemen and Iran, and concentrates on political, social, and cultural trends. coastal marsh areas along the Persian Gulf. We will Although the emphasis will be on Middle Eastern examine irrigation systems, water supply systems, societies, we will occasionally consider and ways of life surrounding water sources known developments in other parts of the world, such as from ethnographic studies, history, and sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and Spain, where archaeological excavations. These data will allow us Islamic civilization was or has been influential. Our to engage with debates in Middle Eastern goal is to understand the shared features that have anthropology, including those concerning the distinguished Islamic civilization as well as the relationship between water and political power, the variety of experiences that have endowed it with so environment in which the world's earliest cities much diversity. arose, and the relevance of "lessons of the past" for present and potential future water crises and "water For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector wars." In our final weeks, we will discuss Taught by: Cobb, Sharkey archaeology and historical anthropology's Course usually offered in Spring term contribution to conceptions of water "sustainability" Also Offered As: HIST 023 and examine attempts to revive traditional/ancient Activity: Lecture technologies and attitudes about water. 1.0 Course Unit Notes: Fulfills Cross-Cultural Analysis For BA Students: Humanities and Social Sciences Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Taught by: Hammer Requirement Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: ANTH 110 NELC 111 Water in the Middle East Throughout Activity: Lecture History 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Water scarcity is one of the most important Requirement problems facing much of the Middle East and North Africa today. These are arid regions, but human and NELC 118 Iranian Cinema: Gender, Politics and natural systems have interacted to determine Religion relative water scarcity and abundance at different times and places. This course examines the This seminar explores Iranian culture, society, history distribution of water resources throughout the and politics through the medium of film. We will Middle East and the archaeology and anthropology examine a variety of cinematic works that represent of water exploitation and management over the last the social, political, economic and cultural 9000 years, looking at continuities and changes circumstances of contemporary Iran, as well as the through time. Students will learn to make basic diaspora. Along the way, we will discuss issues digital maps representing Middle Eastern hydro- pertaining to gender, religion, nationalism, ethnicity, geography and arguments about modern and and the role of cinema in Iranian society and beyond. historic water resources in the region. The class will Discussions topics will also include the place of the cooperatively play an "irrigation management game" Iranian diaspora in cinema, as well as the designed to familiarize personnel involved in the transnational production, distribution, and operation of irrigation schemes with the logistical consumption of Iranian cinema. Films will include and social issues involved in water management. We those by internationally acclaimed filmmakers, such will engage with a variety of media, including as Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Asghar Farhadi, Bahman academic readings, popular journalism, films, Ghobadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Dariush Mehrjui, Tahmineh Milani, Jafar Panahi, how Penn's curriculum changed over time to Marjane Satrapi and others. All films will be subtitled accommodate Semitics, including the study of in English. No prior knowledge is required. languages and biblical traditions, in light of or in spite of historic tensions at the university between Taught by: Entezari secular and religious learning. We will assess how Course usually offered in Fall term Penn responded to changing American popular Also Offered As: CIMS 118, COML 120, GSWS 118, attitudes and U.S. foreign policy concerns relative to NELC 618 the Middle East, including during the Cold War and Activity: Seminar post-2001 (post-9/11) eras. Finally, we will trace the 1.0 Course Unit stories or biographies of some individual objects in Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Penn collections in order to appreciate the university s roles in collecting, preserving, analyzing, and NELC 130 Introduction to the Qur'an disseminating knowledge about the region s deep cultural heritage. Ultimately, by investigating and The goal of this course is to provide students with a writing. general introduction to the holy scripture of the religion of Islam, the Qur'an. In particular, students Taught by: Sharkey will become familiar with various aspects of Qur'anic Course not offered every year content and style, the significance of the Qur'an in Activity: Seminar Islamic tradition and religious practice, scholarly 1.0 Course Unit debates about the history of its text, and Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences contemporary interpretations of it. Through close Requirement readings of a wide range of passages and short research assignments, students will gain first-hand NELC 136 Introduction to Islam knowledge of the Qur'an's treatment of prophecy, law, the Biblical tradition, and many other topics. No This course is an introduction to Islam as a religion as previous background in Islamic studies or Arabic it exists in societies of the past as well as the language is required for this course. present. It explores the many ways in which have interpreted and put into practice the prophetic For BA Students: Humanities and Social Sciences message of Muhammad through historical and social Taught by: Lowry analyses of varying theological, philosophical, legal, Course usually offered in Fall term during odd- political, mystical and literary writings, as well as numbered years through visual art and music. The aim of the course Also Offered As: RELS 140 is to develop a framework for explaining the sources Activity: Lecture and symbols through which specific experiences and 1.0 Course Unit understandings have been signified as Islamic, both Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement by Muslims and by other peoples with whom they have come into contact, with particular emphasis NELC 133 Penn/Philadelphia/and the Middle East given to issues of gender, religious violence and changes in beliefs and behaviors which have special This seminar explores the historic engagement of the relevance for contemporary society. University of Pennsylvania and its faculty, students, and graduates in the Near and Middle East. It does Taught by: Elias so while drawing on archives, rare books and Course usually offered in Fall term manuscripts, and artifacts that are now preserved in Also Offered As: RELS 143, SAST 139 the University Archives, the Penn Museum, and the Activity: Lecture Penn Libraries. Together we will consider how, 1.0 Course Unit beginning in the late nineteenth century, Penn Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences scholars engaged in archaeological expeditions to Requirement celebrated sites like Ur (in what is now Iraq) and Memphis (in Egypt) and how some of these efforts NELC 148 Warriors, Concubines & Converts: the influenced the late Ottoman Empire s policies Ottoman Empire in the Middle East & Europe towards antiquities and museums. We will examine For almost six hundred years, the Ottomans ruled understanding and aesthetic appreciation of each most of the Balkans and the Middle East. From their literary tradition. In addition to honing students' bases in Anatolia, Ottoman armies advanced into the literary analysis skills, the course will enable Balkans, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq, constantly students to become more adept at discussing the challenging the borders of neighboring European social and political forces that are reflected in Middle and Islamicate empires. By the end of the Eastern literature, explore important themes and seventeenth century, Constantinople, Jerusalem, actively engage in reading new Middle Eastern works Cairo, Baghdad, Sarajevo, Budapest, and nearly on their own in translation. All readings are in Vienna came under Ottoman rule. As the empire English. expanded into Europe and the Middle East, the balance of imperial power shifted from warriors to For BA Students: Arts and Letters Sector converts, concubines, and intellectuals. This course Taught by: Allen/Gold examines the expansion of the Ottoman sultanate Course usually offered in Spring term from a local principality into a sprawling empire with Also Offered As: COML 212 a sophisticated bureaucracy; it also investigates the Activity: Lecture social, cultural, and intellectual developments that 1.0 Course Unit accompanied the long arc of the empire's rise and Notes: Fulfills Cross-Cultural Analysis fall. By the end of the course, students will be able to Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement identify and discuss major currents of change in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. The student NELC 216 Introduction to Persian Poetic Tradition will have a better understanding of the roles of power, ideology, diplomacy, and gender in the This course introduces some of the major genres and construction of empire and a refined appreciation themes of the millennium-old Persian poetic for diverse techniques of historical analysis. tradition from ancient to modern Iran. Epic and romance, love and mysticism, wine and For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector drunkenness, wisdom and madness, body and mind, Taught by: Aguirre-Mandujano sin and temptation are some of the key themes that Course usually offered in Fall term will be explored through a close reading of poems in Also Offered As: HIST 148 this course.The course suits undergraduate students Activity: Lecture of all disciplines, as it requires no prior knowledge of 1.0 Course Unit or familiarity with the Persian language or the canon Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences of Persian literature. All teaching materials are Requirement available in English translation. Students are expected to attend seminars and take part in NELC 201 Modern Middle Eastern Literature in discussions Translation Taught by: Shams The Middle East boasts a rich tapestry of cultures Course usually offered in Spring term that have developed a vibrant body of modern Also Offered As: NELC 516 literature that is often overlooked in media coverage Activity: Seminar of the region. While each of the modern literary 1.0 Course Unit traditions that will be surveyed in this introductory Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement course-Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish-will be analyzed with an appreciation of the cultural context NELC 218 Media and Culture in Contemporary Iran unique to each body of literature, this course will also attempt to bridge these diverse traditions by This course is an introduction to the major cultural analyzing common themes-such as modernity, social themes and trends of contemporary Iran. Through values, the individual and national identity-as the lens of press, cinema, literature and drama, the reflected in the genres of poetry, the novel and the course will examine the ways in which contemporary short story. This course is in seminar format to Iranian society has been subject to rapid change and encourage lively discussion and is team-taught by transformation over the past century. This class is four professors whose expertise in modern Middle designed for both junior and senior students who Eastern literature serves to create a deeper are keen to better understand the cultural context of Iran as one of the most influential and significant about the historical and cultural dynamics of food. In countries in the Middle East. this class, we will focus on the Middle East across the sweep of the Islamic era, into the modern period, Taught by: Shams and until the present day, although many of the One-term course offered either term readings will consider the study of food in other Also Offered As: NELC 518 places (including the contemporary United States) Activity: Seminar for comparative insights. The class will use the 1.0 Course Unit historical study of food and foodways as a lens for Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement examining subject s that relate to a wide array of fields and interests. These subjects include NELC 231 Modern Arabic Literature economics, agricultural and environmental studies, anthropology, literature, religion, and public health. This course is a study of modern Arabic literary With regard to the modern era, the course will pay forms in the context of the major political and social close attention to the consequences of food for changes which shaped Arab history in the first half of shaping memories and identities including religious, the twentieth century. The aim of the course is to ethnic, national, and gender-based identities introduce students to key samples of modern Arabic particularly among people who have dispersed or literature which trace major social and political otherwise migrated. It will also focus considerably on developments in Arab society. Each time the class the politics of food, that is, on the place of food in will be offered with a focus on one of the literary power relations. Among the questions we will genres which emerged or flourished in the twentieth debate are these: How does food reflect, shape, or century: the free verse poem, the prose-poem, inform history? By approaching the study of Middle drama, the novel, and the short story. We will study Eastern cultures through food, what new or different each of these emergent genres against the socio- things can we see? What is the field of food studies, political backdrop which informed it. All readings will and what can it offer to scholars? What is food be in English translations. The class will also draw writing as a literary form, and what methodological attention to the politics of translation as a reading and conceptual challenges face those who undertake and representational lens. it?

For BA Students: Arts and Letters Sector Taught by: Sharkey Taught by: Fakhreddine Course not offered every year Course usually offered in Spring term Activity: Seminar Also Offered As: COML 246, NELC 631 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences 1.0 Course Unit Requirement Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement NELC 238 Introduction to Islamic Law NELC 235 Food in the Islamic Middle East: History, Memory, Identity This course will introduce students to classical Islamic law, the all-embracing sacred law of Islam. In the tenth century, a scholar named Ibn Sayyar al- Among the world's various legal systems, Islamic law Warraq produced an Arabic manuscript called Kitab may be the most widely misunderstood and even al-Tabikh (The Book of Cooking). This volume, which misrepresented; certainly, misconceptions about it compiled and discussed the recipes of eighth- and abound. Islamic law is, however, the amazing ninth-century Islamic rulers (caliphs) and their courts product of a rich, fascinating and diverse cultural and in Iraq, represents the oldest known surviving intellectual tradition. Most of the readings in this cookbook of the Arab-Islamic world. Many more course will be taken from primary sources in such cookbooks followed; in their day they translation. Areas covered will include criminal law, represented an important literary genre among family law, law in the Quran, gender and sexuality, cultured elites. As one food historian recently noted, the modern application of Islamic law, Islamic there are more cookbooks in Arabic from before government and other selected topics. 1400 than in the rest of the world's languages put together. Ibn Sayyars cookbook can help us to think Taught by: Lowry Course usually offered in Fall term during even- policies towards Jewish immigrants from the Islamic numbered years World, especially between the 1950s and the 1970s; Also Offered As: RELS 248 their integration in Israeli society; identity politics in Activity: Lecture Israel (or: the "invention" of "Mizrahim"); Mizrahi 1.0 Course Unit political action; Mizrahi music, film, literature, and Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences food culture; and Mizrahi attitudes towards Arabs, Requirement both within and outside Israel. Students will leave the class with a firm grasp of the social and cultural NELC 239 Migration and the Middle East history of Middle Eastern Jews in Israel, and the issues facing third-generation Mizrahim in Israel This reading-and discussion-intensive seminar today. Students will also be introduced to basic examines the phenomenon of migration into, out of, methods of inquiry in history, sociology, within, and across the Middle East and North Africa. anthropology, and cultural studies. Students will We will focus on the period from the late nineteenth engage with a mix of scholarly research, readings in century to the present, and will emphasize the original documents, film, literature, music, and some cultural (rather than economic) consequences of material and visual artifacts. migration. Along the way we will trace connections between the Middle East and other regions-- notably Taught by: Alon Tam the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Course usually offered in Spring term Caucasus, and Western Europe. Readings are Also Offered As: JWST 270 interdisciplinary and include works of history, Activity: Seminar anthropology, sociology, medical research, 1.0 Course Unit literature, political science, geography, and human Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences rights advocacy. As students develop final projects Requirement on topics of their choice, we will spend time throughout the semester discussing tactics for NELC 281 Topics In Anthropology and the Modern research and writing. World

Taught by: Sharkey This course relates anthropological models and Course not offered every year methods to current problems in the Modern World. Also Offered As: ASAM 239, NELC 539, SAST 269 The overall objective is to show how the research Activity: Seminar findings and analytical concepts of anthropology 1.0 Course Unit may be used to illuminate and explain events as they Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences have unfolded in the recent news and in the course Requirement of the semester. Each edition of the course will focus on a particular country or region that has been in the NELC 260 Middle Eastern Jews in Israel news. Taught by: Spooner This undergraduate seminar offers an in-depth look at the history of Middle Eastern and North African Course usually offered in Spring term Jews, focusing in particular on their place in Israeli Also Offered As: ANTH 100, ANTH 654, NELC 681, society and culture. It will begin with a historical SAST 161 background on the Jewish communities in Ottoman Activity: Lecture Palestine, and in the larger Ottoman Empire, Iran, 1.0 Course Unit and Morocco. We will then proceed to consider the Fulfils MMES Social Sciences Requirement engagement of these Jewish communities with (Prior Approval from MEC Required for MMES Zionism, and with other conflicting forces, such as Credit) European colonialism, Arab nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism. We will learn about Jewish NELC 282 Israel and Iran immigration from the region to Palestine/Israel in the period between 1880 to 1948, and about their Taught by: Kashani-Sabet/Tam exodus/expulsion post-1948. We will then explore in Activity: Seminar depth their settlement in Israel: governmental Cross Listed: HIST 232 Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences warfare. Diplomacy followed new rules and forms of Requirement legitimation. The widespread use of Persian, Arabic and Turkish languages across the region allowed for NELC 290 Faces of Love: Gender, Sexuality and the an interconnected world of scholars, merchants, and Erotic in Persian Literature diplomats. And each imperial court, those of the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals, found Beloved, Lover and Love are three concepts that innovative and original forms of expression in art dominate the semantic field of eroticism in Persian and literature. The expansion of these Islamic literature and mysticism. The interrelation among empires, each of them military giants and these concepts makes it almost impossible to treat behemoths of bureaucracy, marked a new phase in any one of the concepts separately. Moreover, there world history. The course is divided in four sections. exists various faces and shades of love in the works The first section introduces the student to major of classical and modern Persian literature that debates about the so-called gunpowder empires of challenges the conventional heteronormative the Islamic world as well as to comparative assumptions about the sexual and romantic approaches to study them. The second section relationships between the lover and the beloved. A focuses on the transformations of modes of warfare sharp contrast exists between the treatment of and military organization. The third section considers homosexuality and 'queerness' in Islamic law, on the the cultural history and artistic production of the one hand and its reflection in Persian literature, imperial courts of the Ottomans, the Mughals, and particularly poetry (the chief vehicle of Persian the Safavids. The fourth and final section literary expression), on the other. This course investigates the social histories of these empires, introduces and explores different faces of love, their subjects, and the configuration of a world both eroticism and homoeroticism in the Persian literary connected and divided by commerce, expansion, tradition from the dawn of dawn of the Persian and diplomacy. poetry in the ninth century all through to the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive study Taught by: Mandujano of representations and productions of Course usually offered in Spring term heteronormativity, sexual orientation and gender Also Offered As: HIST 306 roles with particular reference to the notion of love, Activity: Lecture lover and beloved in Persian literature. 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Taught by: Shams Requirement Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: COML 275, COML 574, GSWS 275, NELC 325 Who Owns the Past? Archaeology and GSWS 575, NELC 574 Politics in the Middle East Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit This course explores the role of cultural heritage and Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement archaeological discoveries in the politics of the Middle East from the nineteenth century to the recent aftermath of the Arab Spring. We will explore Notes: No prior knowledge of Persian is required as how modern Middle East populations relate to their all literary works will be available in English pasts and how archaeology and cultural heritage translation. Students are expected to attend have been employed to support particular political seminars and take part in discussions. Please note and social agendas, including colonialism, that this syllabus is subject to change. nationalism, imperialism, and the construction of ethnic-religious identities. Although it was first NELC 306 Gunpowder, Art and Diplomacy: Islamic introduced to the Middle East as a colonial Empires in the Early Modern World enterprise by European powers, archaeology became a pivotal tool for local populations of the In the sixteenth century, the political landscape of Middle East to construct new histories and identities the Middle East, Central Asia, and India changed during the post-World War I period of intensive with the expansion and consolidation of new Islamic nation-building after the dissolution of the Ottoman empires. Gunpowder had transformed the modes of Empire. To understand this process, we will first look at the nineteenth-century establishment of museums? How did Penn's broader expeditions in archaeology by institutions like the Penn Museum. the twentieth century, to Egypt, Iran, and elsewhere, Then we will move on to individual case studies in shape nationalist imaginations in the United States Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Iran, and the and in Middle Eastern countries, while also republics of former Soviet Transcaucasia to look at informing international antiquities policies? Finally, the role of archaeology and cultural heritage in the how have institutions like Penn and the Penn formation of these countries as modern nation- Museum responded to changing American popular states with a shared identity among citizens. We will attitudes and U.S. foreign policy concerns relative to conclude with an examination of the recent impact the Middle East, during the Cold War and post-2001 of the Islamic State on material heritage in Syria and ("post-9/11") eras, and most recently, amid civil Iraq, the changing attitudes of Middle Eastern strife in Syria and Iraq? This seminar offers students countries toward foreign museums, and the role of an opportunity to consult Penn's phenomenal UNESCO in defining Middle Eastern sites of world collections of Middle East-related materials as they heritage. The course will also include field trips to pursue end-of-semester research. These collections the Penn Museum. include artifacts (museum objects), archival records (such as documents, drawings, and photographs), For BA Students: History and Tradition Sector and rare books and manuscripts from the Penn Taught by: Hammer Museum and Penn Libraries. Course not offered every year Also Offered As: ANTH 325 Taught by: Sharkey Activity: Seminar Course usually offered in Spring term during odd- 1.0 Course Unit numbered years Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Also Offered As: NELC 530 Requirement Prerequisite: Middle Eastern history survey Activity: Seminar NELC 330 The University, the Museum, and the 1.0 Course Unit Middle East Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Requirement This seminar explores how two kinds of institutions - the research university and the museum - developed NELC 332 North Africa: History, Culture, Society in the United States as American scholars and philanthropists and the U.S. government engaged This interdisciplinary seminar aims to introduce with the wider world. We will take the involvement students to the countries of North Africa, with a of the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn focus on the Maghreb and Libya (1830-present). It Museum in the Middle East as a test case for this does so while examining the region's close economic history, while focusing on the period from the late and cultural connections to sub-Saharan Africa, nineteenth century to the present. We will approach Europe, and the Middle East. Readings will include questions in transnational intellectual, cultural, and histories, political analyses, anthropological studies, political history through the lens of Penn's Middle and novels, and will cover a wide range of topics Eastern engagements. For example, how did the such as colonial and postcolonial experiences, university and its museum contribute to the developments in Islamic thought and practice, and construction of the Middle East as a zone of U.S. labor migration. This class is intended for juniors, diplomatic intervention? How have American seniors, and graduate students. scholarly traditions shaped academic fields of inquiry including "Semitics" (a term used a century ago to suggest the study of biblical languages and Taught by: Sharkey traditions), "" (a now-passe and Course not offered every year politically loaded term suggesting connections to Also Offered As: AFRC 332, AFRC 632, HIST 370, NELC American traditions of Orientalist thought), "Islamic 632 Studies", and ""? How did Penn's Prerequisites: A university-level survey course in archaeological expeditions to celebrated sites like Ur Middle Eastern, African, or Mediterranean history. in the late nineteenth century influence the late Activity: Seminar Ottoman Empire's policies towards antiquities and 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences 1.0 Course Unit Requirement Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Requirement NELC 334 Africa and the Mid-East NELC 336 Nationalism and Communal Identity in Taught by: Troutt Powell the Middle East One-term course offered either term Also Offered As: AFRC 372, HIST 371 This seminar views the phenomenon of nationalism Activity: Seminar as it affected the modern Middle East in the 1.0 Course Unit nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Together we Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences will consider the diverse components of nationalism, Requirement including religion, language, territorial loyalty, and ethnicity, and test the thesis that nations are NELC 335 Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the "imagined communities" built on "invented Middle East: Historical Perspectives traditions." At the same time, we will examine other forms of communal identity that transcend national A reading- and discussion-intensive seminar that borders or flourish on more localized scales. This addresses several recurring questions with regard to class approaches nationalism and communal identity the Middle East and North Africa. How have Islam, as complex products of cultural, political, and social Judaism, and Christianity influenced each other in forces, and places Middle Eastern experiences within these regions historically? How have Jews, a global context. Students must take a survey of Christians, and Muslims fared as religious minorities? modern Middle Eastern history or politics before To what extent have communal relations been enrolling in this class. This class is intended for characterized by harmony and cooperation, or by juniors, seniors, and graduate students. strife and discord, and how have these relations changed in different contexts over time? To what Taught by: Sharkey extent and under what circumstances have members Course usually offered in Fall term of these communities converted, intermarried, Also Offered As: NELC 536 formed business alliances, and adopted or Prerequisites: NELC 102 or other relevant developed similar customs? How has the emergence introductory courses on the Middle East. of the modern nation-state system affected Activity: Seminar communal relations as well as the legal or social 1.0 Course Unit status of religious minorities in particular countries? Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences How important has religion been as one variable in Requirement social identity (along with sect, ethnicity, class, gender, etc.), and to what extent has religious NELC 434 Arabic Literature and Literary Theory identity figured into regional conflicts and wars? The focus of the class will be on the modern period (c. This course will explore different critical approaches 1800-present) although we will read about some to the interpretation and analysis of Arabic literature relevant trends in the early and middle Islamic from pre-Islamic poetry to the modern novel and periods as well. Students will also pursue individually prose-poem. The course will draw on western and tailored research to produce final papers. Prior Arabic literary criticism to explore the role of critical background in Islamic studies and Middle Eastern theory not only in understanding and contextualizing history is required. Middle Eastern history is literature but also in forming literary genres and required. This class is intended for juniors, seniors, attitudes. Among these approaches are: Meta- and graduate students. poetry and inter-Arts theory, Genre theory, Myth and Archetype, Poetics and Rhetoric, and Performance theory. This course is taught in Taught by: Sharkey translation. Course not offered every year Also Offered As: HIST 479, JWST 335, NELC 535, RELS Taught by: Fakhreddine 311 One-term course offered either term Activity: Seminar Also Offered As: COML 353, COML 505 Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement PERS 012 Elementary Persian II

NELC 437 Islamic Intellectual Tradition This course is designed to help you build upon what you have learned in Elementary Persian I. Emphasis This comprehensive survey of the traditions of is placed on using the language for interpersonal, rational thought in classical Islamic culture is interpretive, and presentational modes of distinguished by its attempt to contextualize and communication. Therefore use of English is localize the history of what is best described as restricted. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing- philosophy in Islam, including not only the Islamic as well as culture, vocabulary, grammar, and products of the Hellenistic mode of thought but also pronunciation-are integrated into the course. religious and linguistic sciences whose methodology Students must either have successfully completed is philosophical. The course examines the influence PERS-011, or take the departmental exam. of these different disciplines upon each other, and the process of the Islamic "aspecting" of the Greek For BA Students: Language Course intellectual legacy. The readings thus include not Taught by: Entezari only the works of Hellenized philosophers (falasifa) Course usually offered in Spring term of Islam, but also those of theologians Also Offered As: PERS 612 (mutakallimun), legists (fiqh scholars), and Prerequisite: PERS 011 or equivalent grammarians (nahw/lugha scholars). No Activity: Lecture prerequisites. Additional advanced-level 1.0 Course Unit assignments can be given for graduate credit. PERS 013 Intermediate Persian I Taught by: Lowry Course not offered every year This course is conducted in Persian and designed to Activity: Seminar help you continue expanding upon what you have 1.0 Course Unit learned in Elementary Persian II (PERS-012). In this Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement course, we will begin to address a broader variety of cultural topics in order to increase your proficiency Persian in linguistic as well as cultural terms. Emphasis is placed on actively using the language for PERS 011 Elementary Persian I interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes of communication. Therefore use of English is This course is designed to help you start learning restricted. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing Persian and to give you the necessary tools to are integrated into the course, as are culture, continue your study of Persian. This course grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Students introduces the Persian alphabet alongside grammar must either have successfully completed PERS-012 and vocabulary. Emphasis is placed on actively using or take the departmental placement exam. the language for interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication. The four For BA Students: Language Course language skills (i.e., listening, speaking, reading and Taught by: Entezari writing) as well as pronunciation and culture are Course usually offered in Fall term integrated into the curriculum. There is no Also Offered As: PERS 613 prerequisite. Prerequisite: PERS 012 or equivalent For BA Students: Language Course Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Entezari Course usually offered in Fall term PERS 014 Intermediate Persian II Also Offered As: PERS 611 Activity: Lecture In this course, we will continue to address a broader variety of cultural topics in order to increase your proficiency in linguistic as well as cultural terms. Emphasis is placed on actively using Persian for interpersonal, interpretive and presentational A course designed to develop greater skills in modes of communication. Therefore use of English is reading and writing standard modern Persian for restricted. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing those with a competency in spoken Persian. The are integrated into the course, as are culture, course will focus on the lexical and syntactic grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Students differences between written and spoken Persian, must either have successfully completed PERS-013, and the problems of Persian spelling. or take the departmental placement exam. One-term course offered either term For BA Students: Last Language Course Prerequisites: PERS 017 or permission of the Taught by: Entezari instructor. Course usually offered in Spring term Activity: Lecture Also Offered As: PERS 614 1.0 Course Unit Prerequisite: PERS 013 or equivalent Notes: Offered through the Penn Language Center Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit PERS 019 Advanced Persian in the Media

PERS 015 Advanced Persian I This course is designed for advanced students of Persian interested in contemporary Persian media For BA Students: Advanced Language Course from Iran as well as Afghanistan and abroad, who Course usually offered in Fall term wish to gain a deeper understanding of Also Offered As: PERS 615 contemporary Persian-speaking societies and Prerequisite: PERS 014 or PERS 018 or equivalent politics. Students will advance their skills in reading Activity: Lecture and listening, as well as in writing and speaking. 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Assefi-Shirazi PERS 016 Advanced Persian II Course usually offered in Spring term Prerequisites: PERS 016 or permission of the For BA Students: Advanced Language Course instructor. Taught by: Assefi-Shirazi Activity: Lecture Course usually offered in Spring term 1.0 Course Unit Also Offered As: PERS 616 Notes: Offered through the Penn Language Center. Prerequisite: PERS015 or equivalent Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit PERS 040 Introduction to Sorani Kurdish

PERS 017 Persian for Heritage Speakers I Introduction to Sorani Kurdish is an introductory- level course designed to help you start learning A course designed to teach the reading and writing Sorani Kurdish and to give you the necessary tools to of standard modern Persian to those with a continue your study of Kurdish language. This course competency in spoken Persian. The course will focus introduces the Kurdish alphabet (Arabic script) on the lexical and syntactic differences between alongside grammar and vocabulary. Toward the end written and spoken Persian, and the problems of of the semester, the course will also involve some Persian spelling. Kurdish classical and modern poetry. Emphasis is placed on actively using the language for Taught by: Assefi-Shirazi interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational One-term course offered either term modes of communication. The four language skills Also Offered As: PERS 617 (i.e., listening, speaking, reading, and writing) as well Prerequisites: Fluency in spoken Persian. as pronunciation and culture are integrated into the Activity: Lecture curriculum. There is no prerequisite. 1.0 Course Unit

PERS 018 Persian for Heritage Speakers II Taught by: Salih Activity: Seminar Also Offered As: PERS 640 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture Notes: Offered through Penn Language Center. This 1.0 Course Unit is a two-semester course

PERS 111 Beginning Pashtu I PERS 320 Persian Culture, Literature and Film for Advanced Learners I Reading, writing, basic grammar and elemental speaking. Taught by: Shams For BA Students: Language Course Also Offered As: PERS 620 Taught by: Santry Activity: Lecture Course usually offered in Fall term 1.0 Course Unit Also Offered As: SAST 405 Activity: Lecture PERS 514 Intermediate Pashtu Part II 1.0 Course Unit For BA Students: Last Language Course PERS 112 Beginning Pashtu II Taught by: Santry Course is two terms. Students must enter first term. Reading, writing, basic grammar and elemental Also Offered As: PERS 114, SAST 426 speaking. Activity: Seminar For BA Students: Language Course 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Santry Notes: Offered through Penn Language Center. This Course usually offered in Spring term is a two-semester course. Also Offered As: SAST 406 Prerequisites: For second semester, completion of PERS 611 Elementary Persian I the first semester. Activity: Seminar This course is designed to help you start learning 1.0 Course Unit Persian and to give you the necessary tools to Notes: This is a two-semester course. continue your study of Persian. This course introduces the Persian alphabet alongside grammar PERS 113 Intermediate Pashtu and vocabulary. Emphasis is placed on actively using the language for interpersonal, interpretive, and A wide variety of reading genres, writing, and oral presentational modes of communication. The four expression. language skills (i.e., listening, speaking, reading and For BA Students: Language Course writing) as well as pronunciation and culture are Taught by: Santry integrated into the curriculum. There is no Course usually offered in Fall term prerequisite. Also Offered As: SAST 425 Prerequisites: Beg. Pashtu, or permission by For BA Students: Language Course instructor. Taught by: Entezari Activity: Lecture Course usually offered in Fall term 1.0 Course Unit Also Offered As: PERS 011 Activity: Lecture PERS 114 Intermediate Pashtu Part II 1.0 Course Unit

Beg. Pashto, or permission of the instructor. A wide PERS 612 Elementary Persian II variety of reading genres, writing, and oral expression This course is designed to help you build upon what you have learned in Elementary Persian I. Emphasis For BA Students: Last Language Course is placed on using the language for interpersonal, Taught by: Santry interpretive, and presentational modes of Course usually offered in Spring term communication. Therefore, use of English is Also Offered As: PERS 514, SAST 426 restricted. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing- as well as culture, vocabulary, grammar, and For BA Students: Last Language Course pronunciation-are integrated into the course. Taught by: Entezari Students must either have successfully completed Course usually offered in Spring term PERS-611, or take the departmental exam. Also Offered As: PERS 014 Prerequisite: PERS 613 Activity: Lecture For BA Students: Language Course 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Entezari Course usually offered in Spring term PERS 615 Advanced Persian I Also Offered As: PERS 012 Prerequisite: PERS 611 For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Activity: Lecture Course usually offered in Fall term 1.0 Course Unit Also Offered As: PERS 015 Prerequisite: PERS 614 PERS 613 Intermediate Persian I Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit This course is conducted in Persian and designed to help you continue expanding upon what you have PERS 616 Advanced Persian II learned in Elementary Persian II (PERS-012). In this course, we will begin to address a broader variety of For BA Students: Advanced Language Course cultural topics in order to increase your proficiency Course usually offered in Spring term in linguistic as well as cultural terms. Emphasis is Also Offered As: PERS 016 placed on actively using the language for Prerequisite: PERS 615 interpersonal, interpretive and presentational Activity: Lecture modes of communication. Therefore use of English is 1.0 Course Unit restricted. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are integrated into the course, as are culture, PERS 617 Persian for Heritage Speakers I grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Students must either have successfully completed PERS-612 An intensive, one-semester course designed to teach or take the departmental placement exam. the reading and writing of standard Tehran Persian to those with a speaking knowledge of that For BA Students: Language Course language. In recent years there has been an Taught by: Entezari increasing demand from Persian-speaking Iranian- Course usually offered in Fall term American students for formal instruction in Persian. Also Offered As: PERS 013 While many of these students have some degree of Prerequisite: PERS 612 spoken fluency in Persian, they are often unable to Activity: Lecture read or write it. Their speaking ability makes it 1.0 Course Unit difficult to integrate them into first- or second-year classes of students who have started with no PERS 614 Intermediate Persian II knowledge of Persian. If these Persian-speaking students could be brought to at least a second-year In this course, we will continue to address a broader level of reading and writing, they could then be variety of cultural topics in order to increase your enrolled in more advanced courses in Persian where proficiency in linguistic as well as cultural terms. they would be more or less at the same level as Emphasis is placed on actively using Persian for other students. The course will focus on the lexical interpersonal, interpretive and presentational and syntactic differences between written and modes of communication. Therefore, use of English spoken Persian, and the problems of Persian is restricted. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing spelling. are integrated into the course, as are culture, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Students One-term course offered either term must either have successfully completed PERS-613, Also Offered As: PERS 017 or take the departmental placement exam. Prerequisites: Fluency in spoken Persian. Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit North Africa, has not produced industrialized or self- sustaining economic growth. PERS 620 Persian Culture, Literature and Film for Advanced Learners I Taught by: Vitalis or Lustick Course not offered every year Taught by: Shams Activity: Recitation Also Offered As: PERS 320 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture Fulfils MMES Social Sciences Requirement 1.0 Course Unit MMES Foundational Course Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement PSCI 251 Arab Israeli Relations PERS 640 Introduction to Sorani Kurdish In this course the Arab-Israeli dispute from 1948 to Introduction to Sorani Kurdish is an introductory- the present will serve as a vehicle for understanding level course designed to help you start learning how domestic and global political processes interact Sorani Kurdish and to give you the necessary tools to to shape, contain, or aggravate Middle Eastern wars continue your study of Kurdish language. This course between states and non-state actors. Particular introduces the Kurdish alphabet (Arabic script) stress will be placed on understanding how wars alongside grammar and vocabulary. Toward the end affect international politics in states and political of the semester, the course will also involve some organizations and how ideological and structural Kurdish classical and modern poetry. Emphasis is features of states and organizations find expression placed on actively using the language for in wars and complicate or enable the search for interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational peach. In addition, the key features of the conflict modes of communication. The four language skills will be interpreted as both a clash between the (i.e., listening, speaking, reading, and writing) as well political interests of national and/or religious groups as pronunciation and culture are integrated into the and as a reflection of global political power curriculum. There is no prerequisite. struggles. Attention will be given towards the end of the course to alternative ideas about possible Also Offered As: PERS 040 resolution of the conflict as well as to the Activity: Lecture increasingly prominent argument that, in this case, 1.0 Course Unit there is no solution.

Political Science Taught by: Lustick Course not offered every year PSCI 211 Politics in the Contemporary Middle East Also Offered As: JWST 248 Activity: Recitation This course is an introduction to the most prominent 1.0 Course Unit historical, cultural, institutional, and ideological Fulfils MMES Social Sciences Requirement features of Middle Eastern politics. Typical of the questions we shall address are why processes of PSCI 253 International Politics of the Middle East modernization and economic change have not produced liberal democracies; why Islamic This course will focus primarily on episodes of movements have gained enormous strength in some external intervention by the Great Powers in the countries and not others; why conflicts in the region- politics of Middle Eastern states. We shall begin by -between Israel and the Arabs, Iran and Iraq, or examining the emergence of the Middle Eastern inside of --have been so bitter and state system after the disappearance of the Ottoman protracted; why the era of military coups was Empire in the early part of the 20th century. This brought to an end but transitions to democracy have discussion will provide opportunities to develop key been difficult to achieve; why Arab unity has been so concepts in the study of international politics and elusive and yet so insistent a theme; and why oil will serve as crucial historical background. We shall wealth in the Gulf, in the Arabian Peninsula, and in then turn our attention to the primary concern of the course--a systematic consideration of the motives, operational results, and long-term implications of a number of important examples of and people across their borders. The seminar intervention by the Great Powers in the Middle East. explores how security and insecurity are understood, Among the episodes to be considered will be British produced, and implemented in the form of border policies toward the end of World War I, in Palestine security policies. The comparative study of American in the 1930s, and, along with the French, in Suez in and Turkish border control will uncover both 1956. Soviet intervention in the first Arab-Israeli war, similarities in the framing of border policies, but also in 1948, will be analyzed along with Soviet policies distinct differences on how these two countries deal toward Egypt in the early 1970s. American with border security. The international focus will intervention in Iran in 1953 and in the Gulf War in enable students to appreciate the global aspect of 1991 will also be examined. border security issues, and research multiple questions on the extent to which what is facing the Taught by: Lustick USA in terms of border security is not unique on its Course usually offered in Spring term own. This course will be co-taught with a professor Also Offered As: JWST 253 and students at Sabanci University. We will overlap Activity: Recitation with their classroom for roughly half of out three 1.0 Course Unit hour seminar meeting, and the professors will co- Fulfils MMES Social Sciences Requirement teach the course. Common readings will be MMES Foundational Course discussed each week, but each Professor will assign additional readings of her choice to complement the common discussions. In the Penn seminar, we will PSCI 353 Security & Anxiety at International aim to produce a research paper, so in addition to Borders: Turkey & USA in Global Perspective discussing the substantive readings, we will concentrate on formulating interesting research Borders are increasingly contested in global order, questions, think carefully about how to bring data to yet function as distinct markers of statehood and bear on specific questions or hypotheses, become sovereignty. How states control their borders familiar with data sources, and discuss research physically is an important manifestation of their design. sovereign rights. In this course, we explore the meaning attached to international borders for two Taught by: Simmons allies in very different regions of the world, Turkey Course not offered every year and the United States. We inquire into the role that Prerequisite: Instructor permission (students must national territorial and international borders shave apply) come to play in their national identities. We will Activity: Seminar place these two countries in the context of their 1.0 Course Unit "neighborhoods" to understand the threats and Fulfils MMES Social Sciences Requirement opportunities seem to attend border spaces. With their extensive coastlines and land boundaries, these Religious Studies states are subject in different ways to external influences. Both have extensive trade relations with RELS 141 The Israeli Soul: Religion and Psychology the rest of the world, as well as extensive illicit in Modern Israel economies along their borders. The United States is "a nation of immigrants" currently questioning the This course aims to introduce what it means to be an value of immigration. Turkey is host to the largest Israeli today by exploring how Israeli identity relates number of refugees in the world. Each state faces its to politics, religion, violence and trauma. Taught by own version of an ontological crisis, as they decide an anthropologist, the course is focused on being how to engage, filter or deflect extraterritorial flows Israeli not as a national identity but as a and influences. These developments raise intense psychological experience, and aims to illumine the issues of identities and boundaries - in particular the religious, cultural, social and political forces that are question of how different societies engage in border shaping that experience. protection. This seminar focuses on the comparative experiences of Turkey and the USA in their methods Taught by: Friedman-Peleg of maintaining borders and dealing with anxiety Course not offered every year about uncontrolled transnational flows of products Also Offered As: JWST 141 students to a facet of the long history of Islam, Activity: Seminar Muslims, and the West. 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Taught by: Sevea RELS 143 Introduction to Islam Course not offered every year Also Offered As: SAST 189, SAST 589 This course is an introduction to Islam as a religion as Activity: Seminar it exists in societies of the past as well as the 1.0 Course Unit present. It explores the many ways in which Muslims Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement have interpreted and put into practice the prophetic message of Muhammad through historical and social RELS 245 Sufism analyses of varying theological, philosophical, legal, political, mystical and literary writings, as well as This course is a survey of the large complex of through visual art and music. The aim of the course Islamic intellectual and social perspectives subsumed is to develop a framework for explaining the sources under the term Sufism." Sufi philosophies, beliefs, and symbols through which specific experiences and practices, and social organizations have been a understandings have been signified as Islamic, both major part of the Islamic tradition in all historical by Muslims and by other peoples with whom they periods and Sufism has also served as a primary have come into contact, with particular emphasis muse behind Islamic aesthetic expression in poetry, given to issues of gender, religious violence and music, and the visual arts. In this course, we will changes in beliefs and behaviors which have special attempt to understand the nature and importance of relevance for contemporary society. Sufism by addressing both the world of ideas and socio-cultural practices. We will trace the Taught by: Elias development of Sufism as a form of Muslim piety Course not offered every year linked to key notions in the Quran as well as living Also Offered As: NELC 136, SAST 139 practices of venerating the Prophet Muhammad. We Activity: Lecture will then immerse ourselves in Sufi theoretical 1.0 Course Unit writings through a select list of primary sources Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement introducing foundational Sufi concepts concerning MMES Foundational Course the annihilation of oneself in God, and the various stages of the Sufi quest for spiritual union. From RELS 189 Islam and the West there, we will shift to a discussion of the interactions between Sufism and philosophy by looking at the How did Muslims and modern South Asia interact writings of two of the most influential Sufi with the West? What Islamic idioms, orientations thinkers,Al-Ghazali and Ibn al-Arabi. We will also and movements emerged in the nineteenth and study the important role of Sufi poetry through a twentieth centuries? Was South Asia a prominent close reading of a selection of Rumi's works. In our global center of Islam? What kinds of Islamic discussion of the social and political dimensions of educational institutions developed in modern South Sufism, we will explore the relations between Sufi Asia? How did Muslims appropriate technologies? movements and religious and political authority, What materials were printed by Muslims? Were focusing on antinomianism and patronage in the Muslims part of the British army? What was jihad in Ottoman Empire, and on Sufi responses to colonial modernity? How did Muslim 'modernists' and rule. The last part of the course will look at the roles 'traditionalists' respond to the challenges of of Sufis and Sufism in contemporary societies from colonialism and modernity? What was the nature of South Asia to North America. Sufism in modern South Asia? What was the nature of politicalIslam in South Asia? How did some Taught by: Harris Muslims demand a Muslim State? What was the Course usually offered in Spring term Partition? How has Muslim history been Activity: Seminar remembered in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan? This 1.0 Course Unit is an introductory course, and aims to introduce Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement

RELS 248 Introduction to Islamic Law background in Islamic studies and Middle Eastern History is required. This class is intended for juniors, This course will introduce students to classical seniors, and graduate students. Islamic law, the all-embracing sacred law of Islam. Among the world's various legal systems, Islamic law Taught by: Sharkey may be the most widely misunderstood and even Course not offered every year misrepresented; certainly, misconceptions about it Also Offered As: HIST 479, JWST 335, NELC 335, abound. Islamic law is, however, the amazing NELC 535 product of a rich, fascinating and diverse cultural and Activity: Seminar intellectual tradition. Most of the readings in this 1.0 Course Unit course will be taken from primary sources in Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences translation. Areas covered will include criminal law, Requirement family law, law in the Quran, gender and sexuality, the modern application of Islamic law, Islamic RELS 643 The Persian Intellectual Tradition government and other selected topics. What makes Persian culture distinctive within Taught by: Lowry broader Islamic intellectual history, and what Course usually offered in Fall term constitutes the historical and geographical boundary Also Offered As: NELC 238 of the Persianate intellectual and cultural zone? Activity: Lecture These questions lie at the center of inquiry in this 1.0 Course Unit seminar in which participants will read and discuss a Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences broad range of works from the 11th to the 20th Requirement centuries. Readings will include works on philosophy and language, Sufi epic poems, religious and cultural RELS 311 Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the geographies, accounts of natural and manufactured Middle East: Historical Perspectives wonders, urban and political histories, as well as other kinds of texts. All readings will be in English for A reading- and discussion-intensive seminar that the regular meeting of the seminar; students with a addresses several recurring questions with regard to reading knowledge of Persian and an interest in the Middle East and North Africa. How have Islam, participating in an additional meeting to read the Judaism, and Christianity influenced each other in assignments in their original language should these regions historically? How have Jews, register for the higher of the two numbers listed for Christians, and Muslims fared as religious minorities? this course. To what extent have communal relations been characterized by harmony and cooperation, or by Taught by: Elias strife and discord, and how have these relations Course not offered every year changed in different contexts over time? To what Also Offered As: NELC 713, SAST 633 extent and under what circumstances have members Prerequisite: prior knowledge of Persian is required of these communities converted, intermarried, Activity: Seminar formed business alliances, and adopted or 1.0 Course Unit developed similar customs? How has the emergence Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement of the modern nation-state system affected communal relations as well as the legal or social RELS 742 Qur'anic Studies status of religious minorities in particular countries? How important has religion been as one variable in This seminar explores the nature and uses of the social identity (along with sect, ethnicity, class, Qur'an. It focuses on the practice and theory of gender, etc.), and to what extent has religious Qur'an commentary and interpretation (safsir and identity figured into regional conflicts and wars? The ta'wil). A major portion of the course will involve a focus of the class will be on the modern period (c. close examination of manuscripts of the Qur'an at 1800-present) although we will read about some the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Kislak relevant trends in the early and middle Islamic Center at the University of Pennsylvania, periods as well. Students will also pursue individually concentrating on the relationship between the text tailored research to produce final papers. Prior and marginalia as well as on the peculiarities of individual manuscripts. The rest of the course will world with an emphasis on gaining an understanding course will center around reading commentaries on of how Muslims view themselves and the world in the Qur'an in manuscript as well as print. In addition, which they live. Beginning with a discussion of the we will read and discuss theoretical works on the impact of colonialism, we will examine Islamic ideas history and nature of Qur'an commentary, literary and trends from the late colonial period until the criticism and textual analysis, and spend some of the present. Readings include religious, political and later section of the course discussing issues of literary writings by important Muslim figures and translation and editorial processes involved in focus on pressing issues in the Islamic world an popularizing Qur'an commentaries on the internet. beyond: the place of religion in modern national READING KNOWLEDGE OF ARABIC IS REQUIRED. politics; the changing status of women; constructions of sexuality (including masculinity); Taught by: Elias pressing issues in bioethics; Islam, race and Course not offered every year immigration in America; the role of violence; and the Also Offered As: NELC 782 manifestations of religion in popular culture. Prerequisites: A reading knowledge Arabic required. Activity: Seminar For BA Students: Humanities and Social Science S 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Elias Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Course usually offered in Spring term Also Offered As: NELC 184, RELS 146 South Asia Studies Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit SAST 144 Modern Islam and Poetry Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement

This course focuses on a basic question: How and SAST 189 Islam and the West why a modern poem turns into a narrative device to debate contemporary Islamic discourses? We begin How did Muslims and modern South Asia interact exploring this question by taking note of how a 12th- with the West? What Islamic idioms, orientations century Persian poet Rumi became - as described by and movements emerged in the nineteenth and TIME Magazine - "the best-selling poet in the US twentieth centuries? Was South Asia a prominent today," and then introduces students to poems and global center of Islam? What kinds of Islamic various social, cultural and religious moments that educational institutions developed in modern South were key in the making of modern Islam. Although Asia? How did Muslims appropriate technologies? the course primarily emphasizes the study of poetry What materials were printed by Muslims? Were produced and circulated among various Muslim Muslims part of the British army? What was jihad in communities world-wide, it also covers covers a modernity? How did Muslim 'modernists' and diverse set of secondary readings from the field of 'traditionalists' respond to the challenges of religious studies, anthropology and literature to colonialism and modernity? What was the nature of outline more clearly the contours of contemporary Sufism in modern South Asia? What was the nature Islam. Readings begin with internationally famous of political Islam in South Asia? How did some Rumi and then include poets emerging from Arabic, Muslims demand a Muslim State? What was the Persian, Urdu, and several vernacular literary Partition? How has Muslim history been cultures in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries. remembered in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan? This is an introductory course, and aims to introduce Course not offered every year students to a facet of the long history of Islam, Activity: Seminar Muslims, and the West. 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences Taught by: Sevea Requirement Course not offered every year Also Offered As: RELS 189, SAST 589 SAST 146 Islam in Modern World Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit This course key issues facing Muslims in the modern Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Course usually offered in Fall term SAST 269 Migration and the Middle East Also Offered As: TURK 621 Activity: Lecture This reading and discussion-intensive seminar 1.0 Course Unit examines the phenomenon of migration into, out of, within, and across the Middle East and North Africa. TURK 022 Elementary Turkish II We will focus on the period from the late nineteenth century to the present, and will emphasize the This course is a continuation of TURK 021 and is cultural (rather than economic) consequences of designed to strengthen and extend students' migration. Along the way we will trace connections listening, speaking, reading and writing competence between the Middle East and other regions--notably and to deepen an understanding of Turkish people in the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Turkey. By the end of this course, students will be Caucasus, and Western Europe. Readings are able to handle a variety of day to day needs in interdisciplinary and include works of history, Turkish-speaking settings and engage in simple anthropology, sociology, medical research, conversations. Students can expect to be able to literature, political science, geography, and human order food and drinks, purchase things, and to be rights advocacy. As students develop final projects able to be familiar with current social topics. on topics of their choice, we will spend time Students will be able to talk about all tenses, throughout the semester discussing tactics for present, future, past, past continuous, make research and writing. comparisons, describe people and things in detail, make travel plans, make reservations in hotels and Taught by: Sharkey holiday resorts, write complaint letters. By the end Course not offered every year of the course, students will be able to talk about Also Offered As: ASAM 239, NELC 239, NELC 539 their studies and their plans for the future. Also, Activity: Seminar students will develop reading strategies that should 1.0 Course Unit allow them to understand the general meaning of Notes: This is a topics course and will vary from year articles, and short literary texts. Students will learn to year. practical life in Turkey and will explore Turkish Fulfils Either MMES Humanities or Social Sciences culture on the internet. Requirement

Turkish For BA Students: Language Course Taught by: Hatiboglu TURK 021 Elementary Turkish I Course usually offered in Spring term Also Offered As: TURK 622 This is a course for beginners who have no previous Prerequisites: TURK 021, Elementary Turkish I, or knowledge of Turkish. Using a communicative equivalent. approach, Elementary Turkish introduces basic Activity: Lecture vocabulary and grammar rules and focuses on 1.0 Course Unit building language competencies in listening, reading, speaking and writing. By the end of the course, TURK 023 Intermediate Turkish I students will be able to participate in simple conversations, to know daily expressions, and will A continuation of elementary Turkish, with emphasis understand simple dialogues in day-to-day context on grammar and reading. This course is for students and will be able to count and tell time. Will be able who have previous knowledge of Turkish or students to speak about the events that happened in the past who have completed Elementary Turkish I and II. and express plans for the future. Students will also This course is designed to improve students' writing develop writing strategies that will allow them to and speaking competence, to increase vocabulary, to write simple letters and fill in commonly-used forms. deepen grammar usage, and to help develop effective reading and listening strategies in Turkish. For BA Students: Language Course Students' Turkish language proficiency and cultural Taught by: Hatiboglu awareness and knowledge will increase by being exposed to authentic materials and coursework. For BA Students: Language Course TURK 027 Advanced Spoken Turkish and Cinema I Taught by: Hatiboglu Course usually offered in Fall term In this course, we will look at differing degrees of Also Offered As: TURK 623 interaction between literature and the films it Prerequisites: TURK 022 or equivalent. inspires. Discussions of each novel will be followed Activity: Lecture by screening of the related film, allowing us to 1.0 Course Unit explore themes such as the different forms of banditry (old school vs. organized), honor killings, TURK 024 Intermediate Turkish II the use of books in films, and the problems of artistic representation. This course will give students the This course expands students writing and speaking opportunity to improve significantly on written and competence in Turkish, increases vocabulary, and spoken discourse strategies and to raise language helps students' practice effective reading and competence to an academic register. Students will listening strategies. Our in-class discussions are work across the Turkish language, its literary genres, based on role-plays, weekly readings, and news and media as they interpret and analyze cultural, reports from TV and newspapers. Students will political, and historical moments in Turkish movies. communicate through threaded discussions, chat Students will attempt to understand how political rooms, and Skype. Though the review of grammar shifts over the past 20 years have impacted the will not be the primary focus of the course, students current situation and cultural conception, religious will expand and deepen their knowledge of grammar and cultural norms, and traditions. Contemporary through specific grammar exercises. Students will Turkish authors' books will be analyzed and have the opportunity to practice and read about the discussed in this course. We'll have sessions in the cultural and historical issues and prepare for Penn Museum related to exhibitions from Turkey advanced level Turkish. and the region.

For BA Students: Last Language Course For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Taught by: Hatiboglu Taught by: Hatiboglu Course usually offered in Spring term Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: TURK 624 Also Offered As: TURK 627 Activity: Lecture Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit

TURK 025 Advanced Modern Turkish I TURK 028 Advanced Spoken Turkish and Cinema II

The study of modern Turkish at the advanced level This course offers students the opportunity to incorporates emphasis on grammar and reading and improve significantly written and spoken discourse focuses on business Turkish. Interviews with strategies and to raise language competence to the professionals from different business groups will advance level. Students work across media and take place, such as education, medicine, business, movies as they interpret and analyze cultural, law and political science. The study will also place political and historical moments in Turkish movies. emphasis on conversational fluency and on Special attention will be given to the development of increased ability for reading and comprehending an academic discourse style during in-class texts, including newspapers, prose, and Turkish discussions, threaded discussions, and written cultural materials. compositions. Interviews and discussions will take place in this course. There will be in-class movie For BA Students: Advanced Language Course screenings, and the course concludes with an in-class Taught by: Hatiboglu presentation of the collaborative creative project. Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: TURK 625 For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Prerequisites: TURK 024, Intermediate Turkish II Course usually offered in Spring term Activity: Lecture Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit

TURK 031 Elementary Uzbek I 1.0 Course Unit

Designed to cover beginning college levels of TURK 121 Advanced Turkish Culture & Media I language instruction, Uzbek: An Elementary Textbook provides learners and instructors with a This course is for students who are from all different wide selection of materials and task-oriented levels of Turkish knowledge. They are expected to activities to facilitate the development of language write and talk about Turkish movies, culture, politics learning. It offers a thematically organized and according to their own level and pace. They will talk integrative approach to the Uzbek language and its to Turkish visitors and interview them. Turkish culture, including a functional approach to grammar, movies will be the part of the course and once a an emphasis on integrated skills development, and month, students will watch a Turkish movie and the use of authentic materials such as videos filmed analyze it. Discussions will take place and students in various regions of Uzbekistan. Uzbek: An will write essays about the movie. This course is Elementary Textbook contains one CD-ROM that designed with a technology-rich, project based includes authentic audio and video materials to approach. The materials will go beyond instruction in accompany the text and integrated, interactive grammar and vocabulary to support the acquisition exercises and games, all in Flash format and all of of socio-cultural pragmatics and intercultural which are keyed to the textbook. It includes a learning. supplementary Cyrillic reader, an extensive glossary, and four-color illustrations and photographs For BA Students: Advanced Language Course throughout. Taught by: Hatiboglu Course usually offered in Fall term Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: TURK 521 Also Offered As: TURK 631 Activity: Seminar Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement

TURK 032 Elementary Uzbek II TURK 122 Advanced Turkish Culture & Media II

Continuation of TURK 031, Elementary Uzbek I. Similar to TURK 212, Advanced Turkish Culture & Designed to cover beginning college levels of Media I, students in this course will also gain language instruction, Uzbek: An Elementary exposure to social Turkish clubs and have the Textbook provides learners and instructors with a opportunity to establish their own. They will arrange wide selection of materials and task-oriented Turkish tea parties and learn about Turkish cuisine. activities to facilitate the development of language Turkish daily news and media will be discussed in learning. It offers a thematically organized and class. Students will have the chance to interview integrative approach to the Uzbek language and its Turkish businessman, writer, journalists in class culture, including a functional approach to grammar, and/or Skype or Zoom people in Turkish. Students an emphasis on integrated skills development, and will present and prepare a drama. Mainly students the use of authentic materials such as videos filmed will create and decide their activities and in various regions of Uzbekistan. Uzbek: An discussions. and the instructor will just monitor Elementary Textbook contains one CD-ROM that them most of time. They will continue watching includes authentic audio and video materials to Turkish movies and expose to Turkish culture accompany the text and integrated, interactive through these films. After each movie, discussions exercises and games, all in Flash format and all of and essay writings will be expected. which are keyed to the textbook. It includes a supplementary Cyrillic reader, an extensive glossary, For BA Students: Advanced Language Course and four-color illustrations and photographs Taught by: Hatiboglu throughout. Course usually offered in Spring term Also Offered As: TURK 522 Course usually offered in Spring term Activity: Seminar Also Offered As: TURK 632 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement TURK 229 Ottoman Turkish I TURK 621 Elementary Turkish I This course is an introduction to Ottoman Turkish with basic characteristics. Ottoman Turkish through This course is TURK-021 for graduate students. readings in printed selections will be exercised with Introduction to the spoken and written language of different techniques. Students will learn Persian and contemporary Turkey. Arabic effects on Ottoman Turkish. They will be able to read simple texts at the end of this course. For BA Students: Language Course General information on Ottoman Turkish will be Taught by: Hatiboglu given to students during this course. This course will Course usually offered in Fall term be offered one semester during the school year. Not Also Offered As: TURK 021 open to auditors. Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Hatiboglu Course not offered every year TURK 622 Elementary Turkish II Also Offered As: TURK 629 Prerequisites: Two semesters of Turkish and two This course is TURK 022 for graduate students. semesters of Arabic or Persian OR four semesters of Turkish or equivalent For BA Students: Language Course Activity: Seminar Taught by: Hatiboglu 1.0 Course Unit Course usually offered in Spring term Also Offered As: TURK 022 TURK 329 Advanced Readings Ottoman Texts Prerequisites: TURK 621, Elementary Turkish II or equivalent. Course not offered every year Activity: Lecture Also Offered As: TURK 729 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit TURK 623 Intermediate Turkish I

TURK 521 Advanced Turkish Culture & Media I This course is TURK 023 for graduate students.

This course is TURK 121 for graduate students. For BA Students: Language Course Taught by: Hatiboglu Course usually offered in Fall term For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Also Offered As: TURK 023 Taught by: Hatiboglu Prerequisites: TURK 622, Elementary Turkish II, or Course usually offered in fall term equivalent. Also Offered As: TURK 121 Activity: Lecture Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit Fulfils MMES Humanities Requirement TURK 624 Intermediate Turkish II

TURK 522 Advanced Turkish Culture & Media II This course is TURK 024 for graduate students.

This course is TURK 122 for graduate students. For BA Students: Last Language Course Taught by: Hatiboglu For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Course usually offered in Spring term Taught by: Hatiboglu Also Offered As: TURK 024 Course usually offered in Spring term Prerequisites: TURK 623, Intermediate Turkish I or Also Offered As: TURK 122 equivalent. Activity: Seminar Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit TURK 629 Ottoman Turkish I TURK 625 Advanced Modern Turkish I This course is an introduction to Ottoman Turkish The study of modern Turkish at the advanced level; with basic characteristics. Ottoman Turkish through emphasis on grammar and reading, focusing on readings in printed selections will be exercised with business Turkish. Interviews with professionals from different techniques. Students will learn Persian and different business groups will take place such as Arabic effects on Ottoman Turkish. They will be able education, medicine, business, law, and political to read simple texts at the end of this course. science. This course is TURK 025 for graduate General information on Ottoman Turkish will be students. given to students during this course. This course will be offered one semester during the school year. For BA Students: Advanced Language Course Taught by: Hatiboglu Taught by: Hatiboglu Course not offered every year Course usually offered in Fall term Also Offered As: TURK 229 Also Offered As: TURK 025 Prerequisites: Two semesters of Turkish and two Prerequisites: TURK 024, Intermediate Turkish II or semesters of Arabic or Persian OR four semesters of equivalent Turkish or equivalent Activity: Lecture Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit 1.0 Course Unit

TURK 627 Advanced Spoken Turkish and Cinema I TURK 631 Elementary Uzbek I

In this course, we will look at differing degrees of Designed to cover beginning college levels of interaction between literature and the films it language instruction, Uzbek: An Elementary inspires. Discussions of each novel will be followed Textbook provides learners and instructors with a by screening of the related film, allowing us to wide selection of materials and task-oriented explore themes such as the different forms of activities to facilitate the development of language banditry (old school vs. organized), honor killings, learning. It offers a thematically organized and the use of books in films, and the problems of artistic integrative approach to the Uzbek language and its representation. This course will give students the culture, including a functional approach to grammar, opportunity to improve significantly on written and an emphasis on integrated skills development, and spoken discourse strategies and to raise language the use of authentic materials such as videos filmed competence to an academic register. Students will in various regions of Uzbekistan. Uzbek: An work across the Turkish language, its literary genres, Elementary Textbook contains one CD-ROM that and media as they interpret and analyze cultural, includes authentic audio and video materials to political, and historical moments in Turkish movies. accompany the text and integrated, interactive Students will attempt to understand how political exercises and games, all in Flash format and all of shifts over the past 20 years have impacted the which are keyed to the textbook. It includes a current situation and cultural conception, religious supplementary Cyrillic reader, an extensive glossary, and cultural norms, and traditions. Contemporary and four-color illustrations and photographs Turkish authors' books will be analyzed and throughout. discussed in this course. We'll have sessions in the Penn Museum related to exhibitions from Turkey Course usually offered in Fall term and the region. Also Offered As: TURK 031 Activity: Lecture For BA Students: Advanced Language Course 1.0 Course Unit Taught by: Hatiboglu Course usually offered in Fall term TURK 632 Elementary Uzbek II Also Offered As: TURK 027 Activity: Lecture Continuation of TURK 631, Elementary Uzbek I. 1.0 Course Unit Designed to cover beginning college levels of language instruction, Uzbek: An Elementary Textbook provides learners and instructors with a wide selection of materials and task-oriented activities to facilitate the development of language learning. It offers a thematically organized and integrative approach to the Uzbek language and its culture, including a functional approach to grammar, an emphasis on integrated skills development, and the use of authentic materials such as videos filmed in various regions of Uzbekistan. Uzbek: An Elementary Textbook contains one CD-ROM that includes authentic audio and video materials to accompany the text and integrated, interactive exercises and games, all in Flash format and all of which are keyed to the textbook. It includes a supplementary Cyrillic reader, an extensive glossary, and four-color illustrations and photographs throughout.

Taught by: Saff Course usually offered in Spring term Also Offered As: TURK 032 Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit

TURK 634 Intermediate Uzbek II

Course usually offered in Spring term Also Offered As: TURK 034 Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit

TURK 729 Advanced Readings Ottoman Texts

Also Offered As: TURK 329 Activity: Seminar 1.0 Course Unit