News
In memory of Thomas Naff
In Memoriam: Dan Ben-Amos
Fenjan Summer 2022 Issue Out Now!
Congrats to the MEC's new Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Lacy Feigh!
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation 2022 Community Partnership Grant Announced for The Dido Problem Exhibition!
Congrats to Austin Cooper for Successfully Defending his PhD Dissertation!
MEC Student Awards 2022 - CONGRATS!
David Kazanjian and Rudra Sil awarded for their distinguished teaching in the School of Arts and Sciences! Read more below.
Events
Bye Bye Tiberias
Film Screening, Followed by a Conversation with Director Lina Soalem
Keywords Symposium
Wolf Humanities Center's 2024-2025 Forum on Keywords Humanities Research Symposium - An MEC Co-Sponsored Event
Book Talk: Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance
Written by Amy Kaplan, the late Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her former colleagues and students will discuss the posthumously published work.
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.