Spotlights
The Middle Eastern Studies programs bring together more than fifty scholars in over a dozen departments throughout the University, who offer nearly 300 language and area studies courses each year covering the Arab world, Iran, Israel, and Turkey.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
CMES provides a supportive interdisciplinary environment for faculty researching and teaching on the Middle East throughout the University sponsoring conferences and lectures, educational outreach, and the publication of scholarly and literary works.
Arabic Flagship Program
The Arabic Flagship Program (AFP) provides training in Arabic language and cultures at the undergraduate level, giving the opportunity to reach Superior level proficiency while pursuing the undergraduate major of their choice.
Israel Studies Program
Israel Studies actively seeks to situate the study of Israel, both ancient and modern, in its regional and historical contexts.
Summer Intensive Language Institutes
Complete a year of Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, or Persian over the summer with some of the best and most motivated language students from UT and other programs.
News
Aaron Bar Adon Elected to the Academy of the Hebrew Language
MES Professor Aaron Bar-Adon has spent decades studying and teaching Hebrew linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin. He helped create the field of study that seeks to understand a language that helped shape civilization and was uniquely resurrected in a modern form during the past 125 years. Bar-Adon also contributed to the growth of the linguistics and Hebrew programs that have taught thousands of Texas students.
Taking Humanities Beyond the Classroom
Not all language training involves rules of grammar and memorizing new vocabulary--in fact, the most crucial language skills can involve no communication at all. That was one of many take-away lessons from a weekend workshop for twenty U.S. officers from the Texas Army National Guard preparing to deploy to Afghanistan, conducted by a team of faculty and staff from UT's Middle Eastern Studies program and the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University.
