Our Teaching Resource Center provides specific outreach programs for schools and colleges without substantial resources in area studies, and thus, also serves an important informational function for a wider public. The intellectual life at CMES is characterized by openness, tolerance, cooperation, and diversity. At the core of our research and teaching is a striving for first-hand, unmediated knowledge based on literacy in Middle Eastern languages and a deeply humanistic approach. We demand the same of our graduate students, who are engaged in varied courses of study leading to the master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies or the Ph.D. degree in Middle Eastern studies and either history, anthropology, or fine arts. Still other doctoral candidates are unofficially affiliated with CMES, notably from among those in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations , where students study Islamic, ancient Hebrew, Judaic, Turkish and Ottoman , and ancient Iranian traditions, as well as comparative semitic philology, archaeology, and other ancient Near Eastern subjects.
Students can also pursue concurrent degrees in Middle Eastern studies and law .
Graduates of our programs teach at major universities in the United States and abroad, as well as hold leadership positions in government, business, the arts, and media.