Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies
Academic staff: 12
Research postgraduates: 15
Middle Eastern Studies offers MA and PhD programmes in all of the traditional language-based disciplines as well as in an extensive range of interdisciplinary areas, including:
- Translation
- Literatures
- Modern History
- Cultures
- Religions
Areas of particular expertise include:
- Islamic Studies
- Modern History
- Contemporary Cultural Studies
- Israeli/Jewish Studies
One of the discipline's most distinguished scholarly journals, the Journal of Semitic Studies, has its editorial home in Middle Eastern Studies.
Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Ô°ÇøÒùÂÒ is also a partner (with the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham) in the recently established Centre for the Advanced Ô°ÇøÒùÂÒ of the Arab World which fields one of the largest concentrations of expertise in the UK.
The Centre brings together more than 50 full-time members of staff drawn from a variety of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social and political sciences, all working on areas directly related to the Arab world.
We offer excellent facilities, including a Centre for Graduate Studies which provides space specifically for postgraduate students and the excellent holdings of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.