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About CAMES
 CAMES'
goal is to enhance the understanding of the Middle East and
encourage informed scholarship on the region in all academic
disciplines. This is achieved through its program offerings,
cooperative programs with other universities, its publications
and the lectures hosted by the center throughout the year.
The center is an interdepartmental, interdisciplinary unit with
the educational aim of assisting students in acquiring a sound
grounding in an academic discipline and in the languages and
civilizations of the Middle East. CAMES achieves this objective
through its MA degree program
-- a two year thesis program that is specifically designed for
students who wish to obtain a broad knowledge of the region.
The program focuses on current methodologies and approaches
to the general field of the Middle Eastern scholarship. Students
structure their own course of study in areas such as
contemporary Middle Eastern History and Archaeology, Social
Sciences, Middle Eastern Politics, and Arabic language and
literature. The courses and the thesis
requirement encourage the students' critical and independent
thinking and the undertaking of analytical in-depth research.
The Center is also committed to the study of the Arabic language
and offers courses at all levels in coordination with the department
of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages as well as a six-week intensive
Arabic course in the summer.
CAMES also regularly hosts research affiliates
from other universities working on doctoral or post-doctoral
research.
For more information, please feel free to
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