Middle East Center - The University of Utah

Middle East Center - The University of Utah
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About the Center
For more than sixty years the University of Utah's Middle East Center has served as
a hub for the scholarly examination of the region. Bringing together than more 30
faculty affiliates from across campus, the Middle East Center facilitates research,
teaching, public events, and community outreach. We provide faculty with the resources
and intellectual environment to realize cutting-edge research and connect with our
scholarly peers from across the nation and the globe. The Center works with the College
of Humanities and many partner departments, including World Languages and Cultures,
History, and Political Science, to facilitate language learning in Arabic and Persian
and an interdisciplinary BA program in Middle East Studies. And finally, the Middle
East Center also partners with the University of Utah Press to produce a book series,
Transregional Middle Easts
.
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Undergraduate Program
Languages Offered
Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarships (FLAS)
Culture and  Language Across the Curriculum (CLAC)
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Middle East Studies Clubs
About the Major
The Middle East Studies degree is designed to provide students with language and cultural
competence in the region of the Middle East that can become the foundation for careers
in public affairs, public service, business, and many other fields. Students are strongly
encouraged to combine the Middle East Studies Major with a major in another discipline
so that upon graduation they have acquired a foundation of career-oriented skills
as well as a high degree of global competency.
The College of Humanities and the International & Area Studies program, in partnership
with several collaborating departments across campus, retain primary responsibility
for the management and administration of the curriculum in Middle East Studies and
other specific disciplinary areas.
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Why Study the Middle East?
Middle East Center News & Events
Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
Spring '26 Faculty Friday Presentations
Going Global Career Panel 2025
Tuesday, November 18 - 12:30pm
Middle East Center Director M. Chris Low presents work in Riyadh
Faculty Publications
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The University of Utah Press, in collaboration with the University of Utah Middle
East Center, is pleased to announce the launch of an innovative new book series,
Transregional Middle Easts
. This series seeks to expand the boundaries of Middle Eastern scholarship by welcoming
manuscripts that address the traditionally defined Middle East, including Egypt, the
Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, and Iran. Additionally, the series invites
innovative approaches that situate the specificities of the Middle East within global,
comparative, and connective frameworks. Topics of interest include diasporas, mobility,
the flow of ideas, disease, environmental change and technological exchange.
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May
25
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Memorial Day
Jun
15
Monday
Juneteenth
Jul
03
Friday
Independence Day
Jul
24
Friday
Pioneer Day
Sep
07
Monday
Labor Day
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Last Updated: 3/9/26