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The Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) in Emory College is a humanities-based, cross-disciplinary area studies department. It is built upon strengths in the cultures, literatures, and histories of the region that spans from the Pillars of Hercules to the Bay of Bengal. As one of the few departments in the United States that offers an undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, MESAS is dedicated to understanding the region through primary sources, whether textual, oral, or material, as well as through multiple theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. We specialize in the languages of Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Persian, and Tibetan as tools for our broader inquiry. With faculty members whose areas of expertise include archaeology, anthropology, gender studies, history, linguistics, literature, and religion, MESAS approaches the study of the region integrally, focusing on historical, cultural, linguistic, and religious continuities from the Ancient Mediterranean and Indo-Pakistani sub-continent, through the Islamic period to the present day.

Our Arabic program produces fluent Arabic speakers for business, nongovernmental organizations, and the academic world. Arabic—the first language of more than 200 million people from Morocco to Iraq—is the sacred language of Islam. Focusing on language and culture, Emory provides opportunities to enhance your Arabic studies, such as a North African Studies summer program, an eight-week intensive Arabic summer course at a Moroccan university, and semester abroad programs.

The Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) at Emory University is:

an academic department in Emory College that offers a comprehensive major and a minor in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, a major in Arabic Studies, and minors in Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Persian, and Mediterranean Archaeology.
dedicated to teaching, researching, and understanding the Middle East and South Asia in a comparative context through a multidisciplinary perspective.
premised upon the importance of understanding these areas through primary sources, whether textual or material.
provides an integrative vision of the Middle East and South Asia that sees these areas as linked through economic, social, linguistic, and cultural connections that have existed since pre-modern times.
serves as a primary educational and informational resource on the Middle East and South Asia for the Emory community, Atlanta, and the Southeastern United States.