MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS AND CULTURES

DIRECTORY OF COURSE UNITS

2007-2008

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Staff Contact Details and their Principal Teaching and Research Interests

Arabic Studies

Dr Philip C. Sadgrove, MA, PhD, Room SG22, Tel: 0161 275 3048,

e-mail: On Sabbatical in Semester 1

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Arabic Literature; the Nahdah; Arab Journalism; Arabic Drama; Zanzibar.

Dr Ron P. Buckley, BA, PhD, Room SG11, Tel: 0161 275 3071,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Literary Arabic; Early and Medieval Islamic History; Early Islamic Sectarianism.

Ms Nadia Abdelaal, BA, PGCE, PhD Candidate, Room SG6, Tel: 0161 275 3136,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Written and Spoken Arabic, Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language.

Professor Hoda Elsadda, MA, PhD, Room SG19, Tel: 0161 275 8121,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Arabic Literature; Modern Arab Thought; Gender and Culture in Middle Eastern Studies; Women’s oral narratives.

Dr Radia Kesseiri-Dalgarno, BA, MA, PhD, Room SG 17, Tel: 0161 275 8595,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Standard Arabic; Media Arabic and translation; Post independence Algeria, and the history behind the development of Algeria’s politics; Culture and Society.

Dr Karima Soutsane, BA, MA, PhD, Room SG6, Tel: 0161 275 3136,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Written and Spoken Arabic; Language Teaching; Materials Development; Phonetics & Phonology.

Turkish Studies

Dr Fikret Turan, BA, MA, PhD, Room SG5, Tel: 0161 275 3066,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Turkish Linguistics; Contemporary Turkish Culture; Modern Turkish Literature; Modern Middle Eastern Literature; Ottoman Literature.

Ms Şirin Tufan, BA, MA, PhD candidate, Room SG17, Tel: 0161 275 8595,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Turkish Language and Linguistics; Turkish Dialects in the Balkans; Languages of the Balkans; Contact Linguistics.

Mr Hilmi Ozan Özavcı, BSc, MA, PhD candidate, Room SG17, Tel: 0161 275 8595,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Turkish Language; Turkish Intellectual History, Turkish Political History.

Persian Studies

Dr Oliver Bast, Dr. phil., Maître ès Lettres, Room SG20, Tel: 0161 275 3065,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary History of Iran and Afghanistan; Middle East in International Relations 1914-1989; Modern Persian Literature.

Dr Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, BA, DPhil, Room SG10, Tel: 0161 275 3070,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Medieval and Modern Persian Literature; Medieval Arabic Poetry; Literature of the Iranian Diaspora; Social History of Early Qajar Iran (circa 1790-1848); Religious Minorities of Iran, circa 1800-1920.

Mr Shahram Kholdi, BA, MA, Graduate Teaching Fellow and PhD Candidate, Room SG17, Tel: 0161 275 8595 or 07946926163,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Teaching Modern Persian and Literature; Historiography of the 1979 Revolution of Iran; the History of post-Islamic Iranian Political Thinkers and Movements;Middle EasternConstitutional History;Civil Society and Reform in post-Khomeini Islamic Republic of Iran.

Mrs Mozhgan (Fahimeh) Zolfi Sistani, BA, MA, Room SG17, Tel: 0161 275 8595,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Teaching of Persian at all levels; PhD research into reading comprehension for learners of Persian as foreign language.

Hebrew Studies

Professor Alexander Samely, MA, MSt, DPhil, Room WG17, Tel: 0161 275 3072,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Rabbinic Literature (Midrash, Targum); Methods of Jewish Bible Interpretation; Text Linguistics/Methodology/Literary Analysis; Hebrew manuscripts.

Dr Moshe Behar, BA, MPhil, PhD, Room WG15, Tel: 0161 275 3069,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research interests: the Arab-Israeli Conflict; Israeli Society, Politics and Culture; Middle Eastern Jews; the relational consolidation of Jewish and Arab nationalisms within a comparative framework.

Mrs Sophie Garside, BA, MA, Room SG21, Tel: 0161 275 3067,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Hebrew Language and Literature.

Mrs Malka Hodgson, Room SG17, Tel: 0161 275 8595,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Hebrew Language.

Middle Eastern History

Dr Feroze Yasamee, BA, PhD, Room SG7, Tel: 0161 275 3068,

e-mail:

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Ottoman History c. 1780-1920 with Particular Reference to South-East Europe; History of the Turkish Republic; Near and Middle East in International Relations, 1856-1945.

Dr Andrew Marsham, BA, MPhil, DPhil, Room SG8, Tel. 0161 306 1623,

e-mail:

Principal teaching and research interests: Late Antique and Early Islamic History; Comparative History of Royal Ritual and Ceremonial; Violence, Rebellion and State Formation in Early Islam; Early Islamic Historiography.

Islamic Studies

Dr Andreas Christmann, Dipl. Phil, Dr. phil., Room WG5, Tel: 0161 275 5667,

e-mail: On Sabbatical for 2007-2008

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: Religious Thought and Practice in Modern Islam; New Approaches to Qur’an Exegesis; Islamic Sufism in the Middle East; the writings of the Damascene Kurdish scholar Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti.

Ancient Near East and Semitic Studies

Professor John F. Healey, MA, PhD, Room SG18, Tel: 0161 275 3248,

e-mail: On Sabbatical in Semester 2

Principal Teaching and Research Interests: West Semitic Epigraphy, especially Ugaritic and Aramaic (including Nabataean); Syriac, Mandaic and Related Dialects; Ancient Syria, Jordan and Arabia.

Support Staff

Miss Louise Graham, Room S3.6, Tel: 0161 275 3595,

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Useful Deadlines

Deadline for change of Semester 1 course units

The end of Week 3 of Teaching in Semester 1.

Deadline for change of Semester 2 course units

The end of Week 2 of Teaching in Semester 2.

An Important Note On Core Language Courses

According to Paragraph 28 of the University's Regulations for Undergraduate Awards, following resit examinations, students may be allowed by the Board of Examiners to progress to the next year of study taking additional course units of the same credit value and at the same level (or a higher level if the programme specification allows) as the failed credits, in addition to the full set of course units for that year, up to a maximum of 20 credits. It is possible for certain course units to be excluded from this provision, and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures has decided that failure in the core language courses will not be permitted. This has two consequences. Firstly, automatic compensation cannot be applied, so students who have received a mark below 40% in a core language course unit will have to resit it, even if the mark is 30% or above. Secondly, a student who fails a core language unit in the resit examination will not be able to carry the credits into a subsequent year of study.

This ruling means that students taking a language degree must pass the language course units with a minimum mark of 40% in order to proceed to the next year of study.


Degree Programme Structures

BA (Hons.) in Arabic Studies (Years 1 and 2)

Code / Title / Credits
Year 1
MEST 10111
MEST 10122
MEST 10711 / You must take:
Arabic Language 1 (A)
Arabic Language 1 (B)
The Contemporary Middle East
You choose 60 credits from the Level 1 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1 / 20
20
20
60
Year 2
MEST 20111
MEST 20112
MEST 20001
MEST 20122 / You must take:
Arabic Language 2 (A)
Arabic Language 2 (B)
Literatures of the Middle East
Modern Arabic Texts
You choose 40 credits from the Level 2 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1,2 / 20
20
20
20
40


BA (Hons.) in Arabic Studies (Years 3 and 4)

Code / Title / Credits
Year 3
Study in Egypt / 120
Year 4
MEST 30160
MEST 30010
MEST 30032
MEST 30122
MEST 31042
MEST 30061
MEST 30171
MEST 30182 / You must take:
Arabic Language 4
Dissertation
You choose 40 credits from:
Introduction to Qur’an and Hadith Studies
Modern Arabic Literature
Arabic Aural Comprehension
Arab Women’s Writing in Translation
Classical Arabic Islamic Texts
Islamic Exegetical Texts in Arabic
You choose 40 credits from the Level 3 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1,3 / 20
20
20
20
20
20
10
10
40

Notes:

1 Subject to the agreement of the Programme Director that the units chosen contribute to a suitable programme. We would strongly advise students to choose courses related to their degree from one of the following subject areas: Religions and Theology, History, Classics, Sociology, Government or Philosophy. Note that Middle Eastern Studies has no control over the timetabling and registration for course units not coded under MEST; you must check with the Discipline offering such course units that you will be able to register and attend.

2 In the second year, up to 20 credits of options may be Level 1 course units.

3 In the final year, up to 20 credits of options may be Level 2 course units.


BA (Hons.) in Hebrew Studies (Years 1 and 2)

Code / Title / Credits
Year 1
MEST 10211
MEST 10222
MEST 10711 / You must take:
Hebrew Language 1 (A)
Hebrew Language 1 (B)
The Contemporary Middle East
You choose 60 credits from the Level 1 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1 / 20
20
20
60
Year 2
MEST 20211
MEST 20212
MEST 20001
MEST 20222 / You must take:
Hebrew Language 2 (A)
Hebrew Language 2 (B)
Literatures of the Middle East
Modern Hebrew Texts
You choose 40 credits from the Level 2 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1,2 / 20
20
20
20
40


BA (Hons.) in Hebrew Studies (Years 3 and 4)

Code / Title / Credits
Year 3
Study in Israel / 120
Year 4
MEST 30270
MEST 30010
MEST 30221
MEST 30051 / You must take:
Hebrew Language 4
Dissertation
You choose 40 credits from:
Modern Hebrew Literature
Biblical Hebrew Texts
You choose 40 credits from the Level 3 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1,3 / 20
20
20
20
40

Notes:

1 Subject to the agreement of the Programme Director that the units chosen contribute to a suitable programme. We would strongly advise students to choose courses related to their degree from one of the following subject areas: Religions and Theology, History, Classics, Sociology, Government or Philosophy. Note that Middle Eastern Studies has no control over the timetabling and registration for course units not coded under MEST; you must check with the Discipline offering such course units that you will be able to register and attend.

2 In the second year, up to 20 credits of options may be Level 1 course units.

3 In the final year, up to 20 credits of options may be Level 2 course units.


BA (Hons.) in Persian Studies (Years 1 and 2)

Code / Title / Credits
Year 1
MEST 10411
MEST 10422
MEST 10711 / You must take:
Persian Language 1 (A)
Persian Language 1 (B)
The Contemporary Middle East
You choose 60 credits from the Level 1 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1 / 20
20
20
60
Year 2
MEST 20411
MEST 20412
MEST 20001
MEST 20422 / You must take:
Persian Language 2 (A)
Persian Language 2 (B)
Literatures of the Middle East
Modern Persian Prose Literature
You choose 40 credits from the Level 2 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1,2 / 20
20
20
20
40


BA (Hons.) in Persian Studies (Years 3 and 4)

Code / Title / Credits
Year 3
Study in Iran / 120
Year 4
MEST 30420
MEST 30010
MEST 30432
MEST 30451 / You must take:
Persian Language 4
Dissertation
You choose 40 credits from:
Medieval Persian Texts
Modern Persian Literature: Women in Contemporary Persian Short
Stories
You choose 40 credits from the Level 3 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1,3 / 20
20
20
20
40

Notes:

1 Subject to the agreement of the Programme Director that the units chosen contribute to a suitable programme. We would strongly advise students to choose courses related to their degree from one of the following subject areas: Religions and Theology, History, Classics, Sociology, Government or Philosophy. Note that Middle Eastern Studies has no control over the timetabling and registration for course units not coded under MEST; you must check with the Discipline offering such course units that you will be able to register and attend.

2 In the second year, up to 20 credits of options may be Level 1 course units.

3 In the final year, up to 20 credits of options may be Level 2 course units.


BA (Hons.) in Turkish Studies (Years 1 and 2)

Code / Title / Credits
Year 1
MEST 10311
MEST 10322
MEST 10711 / You must take:
Turkish Language 1 (A)
Turkish Language 1 (B)
The Contemporary Middle East
You choose 60 credits from the Level 1 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1 / 20
20
20
60
Year 2
MEST 20311
MEST 20312
MEST 20001
MEST 20322 / You must take:
Turkish Language 2 (A)
Turkish Language 2 (B)
Literatures of the Middle East
Turkish Literature in Translation
You choose 40 credits from the Level 2 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1,2 / 20
20
20
20
40


BA (Hons.) in Turkish Studies (Years 3 and 4)

Code / Title / Credits
Year 3
Study in Turkey / 120
Year 4
MEST 30380
MEST 30010
MEST 30041
MEST 30321
MEST 30922 / You must take:
Turkish Language 4
Dissertation
You choose 40 credits from:
Contemporary Turkey
Modern Turkish Literature
Readings in Azerbaijani, Turkmen and Uzbek
You choose 40 credits from the Level 3 Faculty Course Unit Database,
located online via the Faculty of Humanities Home Page.1,3 / 20
20
20
20
20
40

Notes:

1 Subject to the agreement of the Programme Director that the units chosen contribute to a suitable programme. We would strongly advise students to choose courses related to their degree from one of the following subject areas: Religions and Theology, History, Classics, Sociology, Government or Philosophy. Note that Middle Eastern Studies has no control over the timetabling and registration for course units not coded under MEST; you must check with the Discipline offering such course units that you will be able to register and attend.