• Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

    Located within the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, on the second floor.

  • Undergraduate Program

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  • Doctoral Program

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  • Language Programs

    The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department offers training in regional languages, including Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali

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Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Please note that the doctoral program of the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and the joint Ph.D. program in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies will be accepting admissions applications for Fall 2022.
We very much look forward to receiving your applications in the coming months. Should you have any questions, please direct them to mideast.studies@nyu.edu.

Recent Awards and Publications

Faculty and Members 2020–2021
Institute for Advanced Study Publications
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
Institute for Advanced Study Publications
The Discovery of Iran
Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan
Ali Mirsepassi
The Discovery of Iran
Familiar Futures
Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq
Sara Pursley
Familiar Futures
What Is Religious Authority?
Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
Ismail Fajrie Alatas
What Is Religious Authority?
The Body Torn
And Other Poems
Translated by Tahira Naqvi
The Body Torn
Global 1979
Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolutio
Edited by Arang Keshavarzian and Ali Mirsepassi
Global 1979
Traces
A Memoir
Translated By Nader Uthman
Traces
Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses
Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture
Edited by Mehdi Khorrami and Amir Moosavi
Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses