Centre for Middle Eastern
and Islamic Studies, Bergen University
The Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at the University of Bergen
(Senter for Midtausten og islamske studiar,
SMI) was created in 1988 to be an interdepartmental link between the staff
and students at the University who worked on various aspects of the Islamic
world within the humanities and social sciences; as well as to be gateway
between the research groups in Bergen and the outside world. On this website,
you will find information both about the Centre's
own activities on this field, and about the resarch
carried out by the staff and students in the various departments of the
University concerning our area.
University of California, Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Chicago, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The study of the region extending from
Morocco to Kazakhstan since the rise of Islam is
coordinated, encouraged, and stimulated at the University of Chicago by the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies (CMES). Established in 1965, the CMES has been supported by the
Divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and by grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the Mellon Foundation
for more than thirty years. The educational aim of the Center is to assist students in acquiring
a sound grounding in an academic discipline or a professional field and
in the languages and civilizations of the Middle East. The Center, an interdepartmental,
interdisciplinary unit, achieves this objective by helping to plan degree programs for students who intend
to use their knowledge of the Middle East in careers in university teaching
and research, governmental and non-governmental organizations, business,
journalism, and other pursuits. Since CMES faculty members have their primary teaching appointments
in the social sciences and humanities departments or in the professional
schools, the work of the Center is closely linked with the programs of other
degree-granting bodies of the University. The Center also brings to the
University visiting scholars whose work strengthens and complements that
of the regular faculty.
Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Harvard University, Center of Middle Eastern Studies
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) was founded in 1954
for the purpose of furthering the study of the Middle East at Harvard University. This mandate has included
a primary emphasis on the centuries since the rise of Islam and a concern
with the wider Islamic world as well. CMES serves Harvard as the coordinating
body and the primary source of additional support for the various academic
programs that cover the vast region from Morocco and North Africa to Turkey and Iran.
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin—Working
Group on Modernity and Islam
The Working Group Modernity and Islam is
trying to tie area studies more closely to other disciplines. In several
independent projects, the attempt is being made to expand the horizon of
Europe's history, its present, and
its culture, which currently bears the strong stamp of the national borders
of the 19th century. To ensure the inclusion of non-European experiences
and perspectives, it seeks closer cooperation with researchers from non-European
regions in the sense of "research with, not research on".
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African
Studies, Tel Aviv University
The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African
Studies seeks to contribute to the study and understanding of the modern
history and current affairs of the Middle East and Africa.
New York University, Kevorkian Center for
Near Eastern Studies
The Hagop Kevorkian Center at NYU was created in 1966
to support the study of the modern Middle East and promote a more informed
understanding of the region. The activities of the Center focus on the contemporary
political economy and cultures of the area from North Africa to Central Asia, and on the historical processes
that have shaped the present.
University of Oxford (U.K.), Near Eastern
Studies Programme
The activities of the former Near Eastern
Studies Programme have now been incorporated into
those of the newly- established Sub-faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies,
which oversees the teaching of Near and Middle Eastern topics at the University
of Oxford. It will continue to promote interdisciplinary exchange
within the University and facilitate communication and co-operation among
scholars of Near Eastern Studies. Fields covered include the
ancient and modern Near and Middle
East over a range of disciplines, including
history, archaeology, religious studies, literature, linguistics, anthropology,
geography and art.
University of Pennsylvania, Middle East Center
The Middle
East Center
is a National
Resource
Center
partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI of the
Higher Education Act. It promotes the interdisciplinary study of the Middle
East at the University
of Pennsylvania.
It monitors departmental course offerings relating to the languages and
societies of the region, seeds additional courses, and organizes extracurricular
lectures, seminars and other activities for specialists and non-specialists.
It also offers a number of opportunities for study and research overseas
School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London
Yale University, Council on Middle East Studies
The Council on Middle East Studies coordinates activities at Yale
relating to the Middle East. It conducts research on the region and has established
an academic platform for students and faculty to encourage academic debate
on contemporary, historical, political and cultural issues of relevance
to the Middle East and North Africa. The Council's faculty has
organized major international conferences on such wide-ranging issues as
the environment of the Middle East and the region's relations with the U.S. The Council also offers an
annual lecture series, publications, travel fellowships, and support for
a collection in the Yale Library.