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Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Master of Arts

Offered at IU Bloomington by Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

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The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) offers graduate courses in the following areas:

  • Arabic language and linguistics.
  • The modern Middle East (including history and politics; religion; and media, literature, and the arts)
  • Islamic studies and the pre-modern Middle East (including history, religion, literature, and the arts)
  • The pre-Islamic Middle East (including Egyptology, the Graeco-Roman Near East, and the Byzantine Empire)

Students may earn M.A. or Ph.D. degrees in Arabic language and linguistics; the modern Middle East; and in Islamic studies and the pre-modern Middle East; students may also earn an M.A. in Egyptology.

Students are expected to work independently in Arabic for most degrees, or in Ancient (hieroglyphic) Egyptian (for the M.A. in Egyptology).

MELC also supports other Middle Eastern languages, including Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, and Hebrew.

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