WELCOME to the Indiana University Center for the Study of the Middle East, which the U.S. Department of Education has designated as a Title VI National Resource Center. With approximately 100 affiliated faculty members located in the College of Arts and Sciences and seven professional schools, CSME promotes multi- and inter-disciplinary knowledge of the Middle East by supporting academic programs, scholarship, public outreach, and support for educators and students at all levels. The Middle East has long been a center of political, cultural, religious and linguistic fascination for the rest of the world. It is of tremendous importance to the vital strategic interests of the U.S., and never more so than at this moment when popular democratic movements are challenging autocratic regimes throughout the region.
Understanding of the Middle East cannot occur without a solid grounding in the modern languages of the region. Thus, CSME supports the study of Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Hebrew, Turkish, Persian, and Kurdish. We offer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarships to highly qualified undergraduate and graduate students in each of these languages. With our partner institutions across the Bloomington Campus, CSME also sponsors and supports degree and non-degree programs enhancing scholarly understanding of the Middle East. CSME does this, in part, by facilitating close academic collaboration between our flagship department, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC), and the seven professional schools that are also constituents of CSME.
CSME Associate Director Cigdem Balim Harding interviews Yasir Suleiman, professor of Arabic studies at Cambridge as part of the program Profiles for WFIU.
CSME Director Amb. Feisal al-Istrabadi was interviewed on NPR's To The Point on KCRW, Los Angeles regarding the current situation in Iraq and his own history in the region's government. You can listen by following this link. The interview begins 24 minutes into the show.
The Islamic Studies Program would like to invite you to present your current research at the Islamic Studies program's second annual Mapping the Landscapes of Islamic Studies conference at IU on Saturday and Sunday October 5th and 6th, 2012. Over 30 IU faculty and graduate students presented their current research over two days at our last conference in March, 2011. It was an enormous success! Please let us know if you would like to present a paper. If you would like to present, we ask that you submit an abstract to us by June 1st, 2012.
Please email your abstracts to wamayreh@indiana.edu.
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1105 E. Atwater 'Bloomington, IN 47401-3701 | Phone: (812) 855-4221 | csme@indiana.edu
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