Courses

FALL 2026

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Class Name	Section	Title	Instructor
AKKAD AA	001	Introductory Akkadian I	Hannan, David
AKKAD 220	001	Neo-Assyrian Texts	Debourse, Céline
ALBANIAN BA	001	Intermediate Modern Albanian I
ANE 134/234	001	How Do Rituals Work?	Debourse, Céline
ARABIC AA	001	Elementary Arabic I	Malhas, Dana
ARABIC AA	002	Elementary Arabic I	Malhas, Dana
ARABIC AA	003	Elementary Arabic I	Madi, Amr
ARABIC AA	004	Elementary Arabic I	Khalaf Ahmed, Aya
ARABIC AA	005	Elementary Arabic I	Madi, Amr
ARABIC BA	001	Intermediate Arabic I	Cozzens, Richard
ARABIC BA	002	Intermediate Arabic I	Cozzens, Richard
ARABIC BA	003	Intermediate Arabic I	Khalaf Ahmed, Aya
ARABIC 130A	001	Upper-Level Classical Arabic I	Habib, Muhammad
ARABIC 131A	001	Upper-Level Modern Arabic I	Khalaf Ahmed, Aya
ARABIC 131A	002	Upper-Level Modern Arabic I	Habib, Muhammad
ARABIC 241AR	001	Advanced Arabic I	Uthman, Nader
ARABIC 242AR	001	Advanced Topics in Arabic, Language, Literature, and Culture I	Habib, Muhammad
ARABIC 259	001	Introduction to Medieval Arabic Rhetoric	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
ARMEN AA	001	Elementary Modern Western Armenian I
ARMEN BA	001	Intermediate Modern Western Armenian II
ARMEN 110A	001	Elementary Classical Armenian I
CLAS-HEB AA	001	Elementary Classical Hebrew I
CLAS-HEB 120A	001	Intermediate Classical Hebrew I	Kline, Jonathan
CLAS-HEB 130AR	001	Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew I	Helmy, Michael
EGYPTIAN AA	001	The Language of the Pharaohs: Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs I	Clements, Grace
EGYPTIAN 150	001	Voices from the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Literature in Translation	Yu, Freya
FYSEMR 68E	001	Reel Visions: The Middle East through its Filmmaker's Lens	Zeghal, Malika
FYSEMR 30G	001	Digging Egypt’s Past: Harvard and Egyptian Archaeology	Der Manuelian, Peter
GENED 1185	001	The Power and Beauty of Being In-Between	Maranci, Christina
HEBREW 169	001	The Bavli and the Yerushalmi	Harris, Jay
HEBREW 240	001	Lamentations	Levenson, Jon
HUMAN 10B	001	A Humanities Colloquium from Homer to Joyce	Harris, Jay
KURDISH AA	001	Elementary Kurdish I	Hussein, Shan
MOD-HEB BA	001	Elementary Modern Hebrew I
MOD-HEB 120A	001	Intermediate Modern Hebrew I
MOD-HEB 130A	001	Advanced Modern Hebrew I
MODMDEST 100/200	001	The Modern Middle East, Reall and Imagined: An Introduction	Zeghal, Malika
MODMDEST 315	001	Reading al-Manar in the Interwar Period	Zeghal, Malika
NEC 91R	001	Supervised Reading and Research
NEC 98	001	Tutorial - Junior Year
NEC 99A	001	Tutorial - Senior Year
NEC 299A	001	NELC Doctoral Colloquium: Research, Resources and Pedagogy	Zeghal, Malika
NEC 300	001	Direction of Master's Thesis	Zeghal, Malika
NEC 360	001	Course-Related Work	Zeghal, Malika
NEC 370	001	Teaching	Zeghal, Malika
NEC 380	001	Research	Zeghal, Malika
PERSIAN AA	001	Elementary Persian I	Pazhohan, Bezhan
PERSIAN BA	001	Intermediate Persian I	Pazhohan, Bezhan
PERSIAN 131R	001	Classical Persian Bridge
SEMPHIL 152	001	Introduction to Ugaritic	Kline, Jonathan
SUMERIAN AA	001	Elementary Sumerian I	Glenn, Anna
SUMERIAN 143	001	Materiality of Writing in the Ancient World: Sumerian, Cuneiform, and Beyond	Glenn, Anna
SUMERIAN 245	001	Sumerian Economic Sources from Pre-Sargonic Lagash	Glenn, Anna
SYRIAC AA	001	Elementary Syriac I
TURKISH AA	001	Elementary Modern Turkish I
TURKISH 120A	001	Intermediate Modern Turkish I
TURKISH 130A	001	Advanced Modern Turkish I	Taskomur, Himmet
TURKISH 140A	001	Introduction to Ottoman Turkish I	Taskomur, Himmet
TURKISH 150A	001	Advanced Ottoman Turkish I	Taskomur, Himmet
YIDDISH AA	001	Elementary Yiddish I
YIDDISH BA	001	Intermediate Yiddish I

SPRING 2026

Class name	Section	Title	Instructor
AKKAD AB	001	Introductory Akkadian II	Hannan, David
AKKAD 201	001	Introduction to Old Assyrian Language and History	Yurttas, Taha
ALBANIAN AB	001	Elementary Modern Albanian II	Limani, Faton
ANE 116	001	Age of Empires: Violence, Ideology, and the Making of Ancient Near Eastern Societies	Danielson, Andrew
ANE 120B	001	Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 2	Teeter, Andrew
ANE 131	001	The Greek of the Septuagint	Olivero, Vladimir
ANE 140	001	Sex, Death, and the Hebrew Bible	Rhyder, Jula
ARABIC AA	001	Elementary Arabic I	Uthman, Nader
ARABIC AB	001	Elementary Arabic II	Malhas, Dana
ARABIC AB	002	Elementary Arabic II	Malhas, Dana
ARABIC AB	003	Elementary Arabic II	Cozzens, Richard
ARABIC AB	004	Elementary Arabic II	Cozzens, Richard
ARABIC BB	001	Intermediate Arabic II	Madi, Amr
ARABIC BB	002	Intermediate Arabic II	Madi, Amr
ARABIC BB	003	Intermediate Arabic II	Khalaf Ahmed, Aya
ARABIC 130B	001	Upper-Level Classical Arabic II	Nasser, Shady
ARABIC 131B	001	Upper-Level Modern Arabic II	Khalaf Ahmed, Aya
ARABIC 131B	002	Upper-Level Modern Arabic II	Habib, Muhammad
ARABIC 134	001	Colloquial Levantine Arabic	Malhas, Dana
ARABIC 211	001	Readings in Classical Arabic Literature	Habib, Muhammad
ARABIC 241BR	001	Advanced Modern Arabic Bridge	Uthman, Nader
ARABIC 242BR	001	Advanced Topics in Arabic Language, LIterature, and Culture II	Cozzens, Richard
ARABIC 243AR	001	Classical Arabic Bridge I: Historical Sources	Nasser, Shady
ARABIC 251R	001	Classical Arabic Texts Seminar	El-Rouayheb, Khaled and Nasser, Shady
ARAMAIC B	001	Targumic Aramaic	Klapper, Tzipporah
ARMEN AB	001	Elementary Modern West Armenian II	Hayrapetyan, Diana
ARMENST 201	001	Threads of Survival: Armenian Liturgical Textiles	Maranci, Christina
CLAS-HEB AB	001	Elementary Classical Hebrew II	Olivero, Vladimir
CLAS-HEB 120B	001	Intermediate Classical Hebrew II	Olivero, Vladimir
CLAS-HEB 130BR	001	Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew	Motzkin, Theodore
EGYPTIAN AB	001	The Language of the Pharaohs	Clements, Grace
HEBREW 124B	001	Hebrew Rabbinical Texts	Thompson Shalshelet, Deborah
HEBREW 298	001	Rite Place at the Rite Time: Temples and Festivals in the Biblical World	Rhyder, Julia
ISLAMCIV 104	001	Christians and Muslims in the Eyes of One Another in the Early Modern Period (16th-18th c.)	Chachia, Houssem
ISLAMCIV 105	001	The West in Middle Eastern Eyes Through Travel Literature (17th–21st Century)	Chachia, Houssem
ISLAMCIV 158	001	The Quran through the ages: Transmission and Reception	Nasser, Shady
ISLAMCIV 201	001	Islamic Intellectual History: A Survey of the Field	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
JEWISHST 107	001	Jews and Other ‘Others’ in Modern North Africa	Marglin, Jessica
JEWISHST 111	001	Modern Jewish Thought	Heschel, Susannah and Magid, Shaul
JEWISHST 149	001	Topics, Dead Sea Scrolls	Teeter, Andrew
JEWISHST 209	001	What We Owe to Others: The Ethics of Obligation in Jewish Law	Halbertal, Moshe
JEWISHST 212	001	Maimonides on Religion, Philosophy, and Law	Halbertal, Moshe
KURDISH CB	001	Advanced Kurdish II	Hussein, Shan
MOD-HEB BB	001	Elementary Modern Hebrew II	Neumark, Romy
MOD-HEB 120B	001	Intermediate Modern Hebrew II	Neumark, Romy
MOD-HEB 130B	001	Advanced Modern Hebrew II	Neumark, Romy
MOD-HEB 242	001	Hebrew Playwriting: The Theater of Hanoch Levin	Bechor, Ran
MODMDEST 113	001	Empire and Sovereignty in the Modern Middle East	Mestyan, Adam
MODMDEST 114/201	001	A Techno-Environmental History of the Modern Middle East: Machines, Nature, Energy	Mestyan, Adam
NEC 91R	001	Supervised Reading/Research
NEC 91R	003	Supervised Reading/Research
NEC 91R	004	Supervised Reading/Research	Der Manuelian, Peter
NEC 98B	001	Tutorial - Junior Year	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 98X	001	Tutorial - Junior Year	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 99A	001	Tutorial - Senior Year	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 99B	001	Tutorial - Senior Year	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 101	001	Historical Background to the Contemporary Middle East	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 120	001	Jerusalem, a History: From Antiquity to the Present	Marglin, Jessica
NEC 299B	001	NELC Doctoral Colloquium	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
NEC 300	001	Direction of Master's Thesis	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
NEC 360	001	Course-Related Work	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
NEC 370	001	Teaching	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
NEC 380	001	Research	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
PERSIAN AB	001	Elementary Persian II	Pazhohan, Bezhan
PERSIAN BB	001	Intermediate Persian II	Pazhohan, Bezhan
PERSIAN 132R	001	Advanced Classical Persian	Taskomur, HImmet
SUMERIAN AB	001	Introductory Sumerian II	Glenn, Anna
SUMERIAN 141	001	Introduction to Sumerian Mythology	Glenn, Anna
TURKISH AB	001	Elementary Modern Turkish II	Demir, Meryem
TURKISH 120B	001	Intermediate Modern Turkish II	Demir, Meryem
TURKISH 130B	001	Advanced Topics Turkish II	Taskomur, HImmet
TURKISH 140B	001	Introduction to Ottoman Turkish II	Taskomur, Himmet
TURKISH 150B	001	Advanced Ottoman Turkish II	Taskomur, HImmet
YIDDISH AB	001	Elementary Yiddish II	Feldman, Sara
YIDDISH BB	001	Intermediate Yiddish II	Feldman, Sara

FALL 2025

Class Name	Section	Title	Instructor
AKKAD AA	001	Introductory Akkadian I	Debourse, Céline
AKKAD 130R	001	Akkadian Incantations	Glenn, Anna
ALBANIAN AA	001	Elementary Modern Albanian I	Limani, Faton
ANE 115	001	Archaeology of the Levant	Danielson, Andrew
ANE 120A	001	Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1	Teeter, Andrew
ARABIC AA	001	Elementary Arabic I	Malhas, Dana
ARABIC AA	002	Elementary Arabic I	Malhas, Dana
ARABIC AA	003	Elementary Arabic I	Cozzens, Richard
ARABIC AA	004	Elementary Arabic I	Cozzens, Richard
ARABIC AA	005	Elementary Arabic I	Khalaf Ahmed, Aya
ARABIC BA	001	Intermediate Arabic I	Madi, Amr
ARABIC BA	002	Intermediate Arabic I	Khalaf Ahmed, Aya
ARABIC BA	003	Intermediate Arabic I	Khalaf Ahmed, Aya
ARABIC 130A	001	Upper-Level Classical Arabic I	Nasser, Shady
ARABIC 131A	001	Upper-Level Modern Arabic I	Madi, Amr
ARABIC 131A	002	Upper-Level Modern Arabic I	Habib, Muhammad
ARABIC 150R	001	Arabic Literature	Nasser, Shady
ARABIC 241AR	001	Advanced Modern Arabic Bridge: Language, Literature, and Culture I	Uthman, Nader
ARABIC 242AR	001	Arabic Five	Madi, Amr
ARABIC 243BR	001	Introduction to the Rational Sciences	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
ARABIC 245R	001	Classical Arabic Seminar	Nasser, Shady
ARMEN AA	001	Elementary Modern Western Armenian I
CLAS-HEB AA	001	Elementary Classical Hebrew I	Olivero, Vladimir
CLAS-HEB 120A	001	Intermediate Classical Hebrew I	Olivero, Vladimir
CLAS-HEB 130AR	001	Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew I	Olivero, Vladimir
CLAS-HEB 138	001	What is Biblical Hebrew?	Olivero, Vladimir
EGYPTIAN AA	001	The Language of the Pharaohs: Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs I	Der Manuelian, Peter
EGYPTIAN 150	001	Voices from the Nile	Der Manuelian, Peter
EGYPTIAN 200	001	Egyptian Text Reading	Der Manuelian, Peter
EGYPTIAN 227	001	Critical Readings: Egyptology	Der Manuelian, Peter
HEBREW 131	001	Book of Daniel	Teeter, Andrew
HEBREW 235	001	The Binding of Isaac	Levenson, Jon
ISLAMCIV 113	001	The History of the Moriscos: from the Iberian Peninsula to the Diaspora (16th-18th c.)	Chachia, Houssem
JEWISHST 131	001	The Jewish Library	Stern, David
JEWISHST 163	001	Theories of Antisemitism	Harris, Jay
JEWISHST 164	001	Jews in the America	Heschel, Susannah
KURDISH CA	001	Advanced Kurdish I
MOD-HEB BA	001	Elementary Modern Hebrew I	Bechor, Ran
MOD-HEB 120A	001	Intermediate Modern Hebrew I	Bechor, Ran
MOD-HEB 130A	001	Advanced Modern Hebrew I	Neumark, Romy
MODMDEST 112/212	001	Syria A History 1900-2025	Mestyan, Adam
NEC 91R	001	Supervised Reading and Research	Maranci, Christina
NEC 98A	001	Tutorial - Junior Year	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 98X	001	Tutorial - Junior Year	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 99A	001	Tutorial - Senior Year	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 99B	001	Tutorial - Senior Year	Danielson, Andrew
NEC 299B	001	NELC Doctoral Colloquium: Research, Resources and Pedagogy	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
NEC 300	001	Direction of Master's Thesis	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
NEC 360	001	Course-Related Work	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
NEC 370	001	Teaching	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
NEC 380	001	Research	El-Rouayheb, Khaled
PERSIAN AA	001	Elementary Persian I
PERSIAN BA	001	Intermediate Persian I
PERSIAN 131R	001	Classical Persian Bridge
SUMERIAN AA	001	Elementary Sumerian I	Glenn, Anna
SUMERIAN 130R	001	Sumerian City Laments	Glenn, Anna
TURKISH AA	001	Elementary Modern Turkish I	Demir, Meryem
TURKISH 120A	001	Intermediate Modern Turkish I	Demir, Meryem
TURKISH 130A	001	Advanced Modern Turkish I	Taskomur, Himmet
TURKISH 140A	001	Introduction to Ottoman Turkish I	Taskomur, Himmet
TURKISH 150A	001	Advanced Ottoman Turkish I	Taskomur, Himmet
YIDDISH AA	001	Elementary Yiddish I	Feldman, Sara
YIDDISH BA	001	Intermediate Yiddish I	Feldman, Sara
YIDDISH CA	001	Advanced Yiddish I	Feldman, Sara
YIDDISH 112	001	Yiddish Literature and Culture in America	Cammy, Justin