News
MEC Photography Contest Now Open
MEC Undergraduate Essay Contest Now Open
Roger M. A. Allen 2025 Award Recipient: Rawad Wehbe
Janet Lee Stevens Fellowship Accepting Applicants
Events
The Landscapes of Exile in Premodern Persian Poetry
2025 Trehan Lecture
The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
Booktalk with Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Ethnic Politics and State Foreign Policy in the Middle East and Neighboring Regions
An Emerging Scholars Event
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.