2013 MEC Undergraduate Essay Award Winner
Autumn Patterson, a senior Political Science major at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the winner of the Middle East Center’s 2013...
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About At the Middle East Center we recognize our position as a meeting point of different disciplines, departments, and constituents, which allows us to facilitate learning and research opportunities. |
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Media Library The Middle East Center maintains a collection of videos and DVDs for free use by schools, groups, and individuals in Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley region. |
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Co-sponsorship Policy The Middle East Center sponsors programs and events serving the scholarly community at Penn that promote discussion of the history, culture, and politics of the modern Middle East. |
The Middle East Center's (MEC) mission involves raising awareness of the unique circumstances of the region through research and instructional programs. The MEC has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Middle East, and we offer a wide range of educational opportunities.
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This new interdisciplinary degree is designed to allow students, both majors and minors, to specialize in the Modern Middle East as a region of the world by combining course work using both social, scientific, and humanistic approaches, underpinned by relevant language skills.
"The MMES major provided with the flexibility to pursue my own interests while giving me a solid and broad foundation for understanding the Middle East region. I cannot stress enough how very helpful the faculty, staff and graduate students were in guiding me to develop my many academic interests into something substantive and academically challenging." More >
The MEC provides K-12 teachers, as well as the wider public, access to the multitude of resources on the Middle East available through the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Troutt-Powell named as the new Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences
Please join us in congratulating Prof. Eve Troutt-Powell, who has been named as the new...
University of Pennsylvania alumnus Max Reibman has written an article on Egypt's economy and diminishing foreign reserves. It was published recently for...
The Arts & Islamic Culture Program - Begins March 11, 2013
The upcoming "Arts and Islamic Culture" program this Spring, which is hosted at Camden County College's Blackwood Campus. Monday...
Dr. Kashani-Sabet presents at the Bates Center Seminar Series
The Middle East Center director, Dr. Kashani-Sabet's talk gave a talk entitled "Breeding Women: Reproduction and...