Middle Eastern Studies

A compendium of all publicly available bilateral investment treaty texts for the Arab Republic of Egypt.

This dissertation studies the pervasive significance of wonder and its corollaries to Persian literary culture between Iran and India, with a particular focus on the Safa [...]

Two professor-gamers discuss representations of Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East in video games.

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This dissertation focuses on the analysis of archaeological remains from the site of Mendes in the Nile Delta to discuss the transition from the late Old Kingdom to the F [...]

Studies of human remains and artistic representations of the human form have been foundational to Egyptology since its inception; more recently, there has been an increas [...]

Anatolian prehistory of the 5th millennium BCE has long been overshadowed by the developments of its preceding and succeeding time periods, namely the agricultural rev [...]

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The Qurʾān, as a sacred text, poses distinctive challenges for the historian. The talk will begin by addressing briefly some of these challenges, in particular the limits [...]

This paper explores Fadwā Ṭūqān’s and Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s poetry written in the wake of the 1967 June War, the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982, and the Second I [...]

Ancient Egyptian ontologies have been commonly approached as related to order and chaos. Associated with the latter are the concepts of existence and non-existence, wh [...]