News
Roger M. A. Allen 2025 Award Recipient: Rawad Wehbe
Janet Lee Stevens Fellowship Accepting Applicants
MEC Photography Contest Now Open
MEC Undergraduate Essay Contest Now Open
Events
The Scales of Suffering: Neo-Lachrymosity and the Writing of Jewish History
MEC Co-Sponsored Event
The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Cornell UP, 2024)
Embodied Histories Working Group: Book Lecture with Sara Rahnama
In Conversation: Hidden Liberalism in Modern Iran
Persian Students Association at Penn
Courses
Course offerings on the Middle East at Penn are rich and multidisciplinary. All are taught by world-renowned scholars in their field with exemplary records of teaching and publishing some of the most innovative research on the Middle East and Islam.