This holiday season as the fragile ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas holds, another one of the rare, hopeful moments in modern Middle East history marks its 75th anniversary. On Dec. 10, ...

This course focuses on the history of the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present. This course emphasizes the tension between this region’s deep roots as the “cradle of ...

The major in Middle East studies provides students with the opportunity to deeply explore this region’s historical, political, social and cultural complexity. Broadly conceived, this geographical ...

The modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art market has experienced significant growth since the category began gaining recognition among collectors regionally and globally over the past decade.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For this week’s Thirsty Thursday, we’re ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... For centuries, the Levant—that fertile crescent stretching from the Mediterranean coast through Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and ...

Professor Tarek Masoud joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Middle East. What's the origin of the conflict between Israel and Palestine? What are the most significant ...

When Rashid Khalidi canceled the History of the Modern Middle East course he was set to teach as a special lecturer this fall, he cited Columbia’s July 15 adoption of the International Holocaust ...

Charles M. Covit ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Economics and Modern Middle Eastern Studies in Lowell House. In an editorial blasting Congress for looking into Harvard’s ...

Unpacking the Local Impact of China’s Mega-Projects on Kyrgyzstan’s Regions The geopolitical impact of the Arab states on the trajectory of Asian history was enormous: it swept away old states and ...

Chief, rounded off a recent magisterial survey of the great museums of the Middle East with a call for a museum of oil. Now I ...