The Masters Of Arts Program in Middle East Studies
People
Middle East history, the Israeli-Arab conflict
Aref Abu-Rabia is a native anthropologist, at the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University. His main publications are on traditional medicine, family customs, holy saints, education, violence & abuse of children; cosmopolitanism, Islamic medicine and Sufism. His research focuses on the Middle East, North Africa and Islamic communities in the West.
Law, Society and Culture in the Middle East, 2009-2010
Zeevi's research and teaching interests include Ottoman and early modern Middle Eastern society and culture. His publications include An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s (State University of New York Press, 1996), and Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 (University of California Press, 2006). His current research focuses on elite networks in the Ottoman Empire.
Arabic Grammar and Syntax, Arab Grammarians, Arabic Manuscripts
The social and religious history of the Middle East in the middle ages, religious thought and practice in Islam (pre-Ottoman and contemporary), comparative religion
Culture and society of Turkey, 2010-2011
Modern Islam: Politics and Governance, Islamic law and Modernity, Islam in Israel, Islamic Movements, Religion and State in the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Main area of research is Islamic movements. Previous publications have focused on the Hanbali school of law. At present, research includes past and contemporary Islamic movements.
Modern Arabic Prose, Modern Arabic Poetry, Arabic Literary Criticism, Arab Literary Heritage, Exile and Displacement in Arabic Literature.- Sufism in the Life of Muslim Societies, 2009-2010
Seminar on National and Culture in Modern Egypt
Tsars, Comrades and Prophets: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Islam in Russia and the Former Soviet Union, 2008-2009
Muslims in Western Europe – Culture, Religion and Politics, 2011-12
Oil Politics, Markets, and Culture in the Middle East: The State of the Art, 2009-2010- Introduction to the Anthropology of the Middle East, 2007-2008
Professor Meital’s primary research emphasis is politics, culture and nationalism in the Middle East (with special emphasize on Egypt). In this context, he delved into the historiography surrounding the construction of the Egyptian national narrative and examined public memorial and commemoration sites (primarily monuments, such as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the naming of streets in Cairo). He is also an expert on subjects related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the politics of Arab states. He has been quoted regularly about the current crisis in the media.
Social History of the Ottoman Middle East, with special interest in late Ottoman and early Mandate Palestine, Sociolegal History, Family History, History of Women and Gender, and Anthropological History
Autobiographical and representations of the self in Arabic literature; Arabic women's fiction; the nexus of modern Arabic and Hebrew prose; and Middle Eastern film.
Socio-legal history of the Ottoman Empire; Ottoman modernity; Social history of late Ottoman Palestine.
Business History, Consumption Studies, and the Economic History of the Middle East..JPG)
Historiography (with special focus on the Modern Middle East), and the social-cultural and legal history of the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states.
Popular culture in the Arab world (cinema, television, music and caricatures)
Program Coordinator
Coordinator for students affairs, Department of Middle East Studies
I teach and write about secularism, religion, colonialism and popular culture in the modern Middle East, with particular emphasis on Iran and Israel. Initially, my research interests focused on Iranian cultural and political history in the 20th century
The Muslim Mediterranean City, 2007-2008- Political and social history of the modern Middle East, especially Syria and Lebanon; French and British colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa; the Second World War in the Middle East and North Africa, with special emphasis on the role of Intelligence in colonialism and decolonization; the Arab-Israeli conflict, particularly the 1945-48 period; the secret collaboration between France and the Zionist movement/Israel during and after the war.
