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Freshman level  
Intermediate / Advanced Arabic I
ARA 105 / 301 (fa26)		 • Al-Kitaab Part Two: A Textbook for Intermediate Arabic by Brunstad et al.
Elementary / Intermediate Hebrew I
HEB 101/105 (fa26)		 • First and Foremost: Hebrew for Beginners by Ateret Yarden-Barak Goni Tishaler
Sophomore level  
The Art & Archaeology of the Ancient Near East & Egypt
NES 205 (fa26)		 • Art of Mesopotamia by Zainab Bahrani
Muslims & the Qur’an
NES 240 (fa26)		 • The Qur’an
• A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook
• An Introduction to Islamic Law by Wael B. B. Hallaq
Supernatural Histories of the Middle East
NES 241 (fa26)		 • The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn
• Aladdin
• Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
• Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan by Vincent Crapanzano
Judaism, Christianity & Islam: Their Emergence in Antiquity
NES 244 (fa26)		 • The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha
• The Qur’an
Junior level  
Media Arabic I
ARA 303		 Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News by Elgibali & Korica Sullivan
Foreign Aid in the Middle East
NES 307 (fa26)		 • For Humanity Or For The Umma?: Aid & Islam in Transnational Muslim NGOs by Marie Juul Petersen
• The UAE & Foreign Policy by Khalid S. Almezaini
• Everybody’s War: The Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis by Jehan Bseiso
• Displacement & Dispossession in the Modern Middle East by Dawn Chatty
• The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement & Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon by Estella Carpi
• Depoliticising Humanitarian Action by Desportes et al.
• Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War & Disaster by Hugo Slim
• Sacred Aid: Faith & Humanitarianism by Barnett & Stein
God’s Property: Islam, Charity & the Modern State by Nada Moumtaz
• Charity in Islamic Societies by Amy Singer
• The Politics & Everyday Practice of International Humanitarianism by Miriam Bradley
• Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present by Didier Fassin
• Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism & Islamic Charity in Egypt by Mona Atia
Women, Gender & the Body in Islamic Societies
NES 331 (fa26)		 • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
• So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
The World of the Cairo Geniza
NES 369 (fa26)		 • In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale by Amitav Ghosh
• Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Hoffman & Cole
• Trade & Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants & their Business World by Jessica L. Goldberg
• Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History by Craig Perry

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