Cluster: Middle Eastern Literature and Culture

CWL 104. Introduction to the Literature and Culture of the Middle East. Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African culture through an exploration of their literatures, with a focus on some of the major figures of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, such as Naguib Mahfouz, Ghassan Kanafani, Edward Said, and others.

CWL 242. The Bible as Literature. Reading of representative Biblical selections interpreted from a literary standpoint.

CWL 300. Representing the World: Literature and Culture in Contact and Conflict.  A writing-intensive exploration of world literature in comparative and cultural contexts, with an emphasis on themes and topics of global relevance.

CWL 402. Studies in Middle Eastern Literature and Culture. Study of specific authors, themes, genres, movements, or aspects of literature and culture in the Middle East or between the Middle East and the West.

CWL 464. Middle Eastern Cinemas. Historical and critical examination of cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa, including, in no particular order, Israel, the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran.