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Middle Eastern Studies

Middle Eastern Studies cover Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish as the major modern languages of the Middle East,and some of the ancient ones, as well as the Modern History of the Middle East and the study of Islam and Judaism.
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Research

Research embraces the historical-literary study of classical periods, as well as current approaches in the exploration of the social, cultural, literary or religious characteristics of the contemporary Middle East. Staff research interests include modern Islamic thought, the role of women in the Muslim world, translation studies, Israeli culture, modern Jewish thought, 20th century relations between Europe and the Arab Middle East as well as Iran, alongside classical Islamic history, Shiism, rabbinic Judaism, Turkic linguistics and the pre-Islamic and Christian history of the Middle East.

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