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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear MES Forum,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u>Middle East Studies Courses Offered at Ohio State University Spring Semester 2026<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>History<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">HISTORY 2352<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1922<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Studies the Ottoman Empire from the 13th to early 20th century, with an emphasis on the conquest of Istanbul, the consolidation of the borders of the empire, the establishment of the state apparatus in the classical period, a period of
turbulence leading to a substantial transformation of the state in the early 19th century, and finally the empire's dissolution in the aftermath of WWI. Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or GE foundation writing and info literacy course, or permission of
instructor. Not open to students with credit for 3356. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Goldish:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">History 2455 – Jews in American Film</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Matt Goldish</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: Hybrid; M, 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: A study of how modern Jews appear in film compared with historical reality.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GE: Historical and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yehudai:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">History 3475 – History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Ori Yehudai</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: TR, 9:35 AM – 10:55 AM</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Enables students to reflect on ways the past informs interpretations of the present and vice versa, investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict primarily against the background of the collapse of the Oslo peace process.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GE Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">History 4475 – Seminar in Jewish History</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Ori Yehudai</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: T, 2:15 PM – 5:00 PM</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Al-Jallad:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Arabic 2701 – Classical and Medieval Arabic Literature in Translation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Ahmad Al-Jallad</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: TBA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Reading and analysis of major works of Arabic literature from the 6th to 17th centuries including classical poetry, the Qur'an, and the Arabian Nights.<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GE: Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Arabic 5611 – History of the Arabic Language</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Ahmad Al-Jallad</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: TBA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Survey of the evolution of the Arabic language in its cultural and historical setting.<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anthony:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Arabic 3601 – Introduction to Arabic Philosophy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Sean Anthony</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: TBA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Surveying the development and major subjects and thinkers of the most vivid period of Arabic philosophy.<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GE Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NELC 7501 – Narratives of Origin: The Islamic Tradition</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Sean Anthony</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: TBA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: How the contours of the Islamic narrative fare in a source-critical context.<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sellman:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Arabic 3702 – Place, Space, and Migration in Modern Arabic Literature and Film**
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<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Johanna Sellman </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Modern Arabic literature and culture in translation focusing on migration, belonging, and space through literary and film narratives.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prerequisite: English 1110 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GE Theme: Lived Environments </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dirbas:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Arabic 5405 – ALI Advanced Arabic for the Professions** </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Hekmat Dirbas </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Advanced Arabic used in diplomatic/government/NGO contexts, with a focus on professional communication for advanced students.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prerequisite: GPA 3.0+ in Arabic courses, Sophomore or higher standing
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<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Frank:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hebrew 2700 – Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Daniel Frank</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: TR, 9:35 AM – 10:55 AM</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Introduction taught from historical perspective, focusing on formation of gender, identity and race.<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GE: Literary, Visual and Performing Arts; Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Golan:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hebrew 3245 – Israeli Film & Society</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Galit Elli Golan</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: WF, 12:45 PM – 2:05 PM</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Analysis of how Israeli films represent Israeli life and society from the 1930s to present.<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hosseini:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Islam 3201 – Muslims in America and Europe: Migration and Living Between Worlds**
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<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Parvaneh Hosseini </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Experiences of Muslim minorities in the West, with a focus on migration and diaspora.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prerequisite: Not open to students with credit for NELC 3201
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<p class="MsoNormal">GE Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jhaldiyal:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SASIA 2230 – Living Everyday Lives: Systems of Discrimination in the United States and South Asia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Richa Jhaldiyal</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: TBA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Compares everyday life where caste is a category of oppression in South Asia with race as a category of oppression in the United States.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GE: Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SASIA 3220 – Citizenship in South Asia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Richa Jhaldiyal</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: TBA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Engages students with how citizenship is imagined in nation states, in colonial India, and manifest in post-colonial South Asia.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GE Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kamali Sarvestani:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Persian 2701 – Persian Literature in Translation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Mehrak Kamali Sarvestani </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Survey from classical to modern Persian literature in English translation.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prerequisite: English 1110 or equivalent writing course </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GE Foundation: Literature, Visual and Performing Arts </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Moore:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NELC 5103 – Phoenician Grammar</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: James Moore </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Survey and readings in Phoenician and early Punic texts, focusing on grammar and historical context.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prerequisite: At least one semester of any Semitic language
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<p class="MsoNormal">Time: Wednesday 2:15 – 5:00 PM </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours: 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NELC 3168 – History of God</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: James D. Moore</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: Tuesday & Thursday – 2:20 PM – 3:40 PM</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nadiv:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hebrew 3704 – Women in the Bible and Beyond</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Yohnatan Nadiv</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Days/Time: Online Asynchronous</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Description: Examination of social, legal, and religious position of women in the Hebrew Bible and their representation in later sources.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GE: Literary, Visual and Performing Arts; Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tanenbaum:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jewish Studies 2201 – Introduction to Jewish Culture, Thought, & Practice**
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<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Adena Tanenbaum </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Multidisciplinary introduction to Judaism’s historical, ideological, and cultural evolution.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prerequisite: Not open to students with credit for 201 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GE Foundation:* Historical and Cultural Studies </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Credit Hours:* 3</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Young:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NELC 2241</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Middle East Close-Up: People, Cultures, Societies</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Introduction to the culture of the Middle East as lived in its villages, towns, and cities. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for Anthrop 2241. GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and
cultural studies and race, ethnicity and gender div course. Cross-listed in Anthrop.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Political Science<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sylvan:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">POLITSC 4327</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Politics in the Middle East</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Politics of Arab-Israeli relations, Persian Gulf, Islamic fundamentalism, and oil; processes of change and their effects on governments and international relations. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 546.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Sociology<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SOCIOL 3200 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sociology of Immigration</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Provides a sociological understanding of contemporary migration both globally and with a particular focus on the U.S. The course will examine why migration occurs; how it is sustained over time; and how immigrants are incorporated into
the host society. Social relations as central to understanding immigration will be a focus of the course. GE diversity soc div in the US course. GE theme citizenship for div and just wrld course. SOCIOL 3200: Lecture Section 002 (27000)</p>
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