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MESALC

MESALC

Ramandan Kareem

Undergraduate

Learn about the Major and Minor in Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures

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Graduate

Learn about the MA program, admissions, and program structure

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Courses

Pre-requisites, course listings and descriptions

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We focus on the deep historical ties between the many and varied cultures, religions, literatures, and languages of the Middle East and South Asia

News & Announcements

May 17, 2025
MESALC Graduation Ceremony 2025
September 20, 2024
Winning Author Visit: Shehan Karunatilaka
September 20, 2024
SHEA House Application Deadline Year 2025-2026
December 7, 2023
Samhita Sunya Receives Honorable Mention for Sirens of Modernity

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Recent Publications

Modernity & Lexicon of Nineteenth Century Arabic

Modernity & Lexicon of Nineteenth Century Arabic

Mohammed Sawaie

Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance

Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance

Translating Wisdom

Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

University of California Press (2020)