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Email: islamicstudies@swarthmore.edu

Courses

  • Spring 2026
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Spring 2026

  • ARAB 004. Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II
    • Staff.
  • ARAB 012A. Advanced Arabic Conversation
    • Staff.
  • ARAB 012. Advanced Arabic II
    • Staff.
  • DANC 046. Kathak
    • Staff.
  • HIST 006B. The Modern Middle East
    • Shokr.
  • RELG 008B. The Qur'an and Its Interpreters
    • al-Jamil.
  • RELG 098. Islamic Law & Society
    • al-Jamil.

Fall 2026

  • ARAB 011A. Arabic Conversation
    • Hefnawy.
  • ARAB 011. Advanced Arabic I
    • Al-Masri.
  • ARAB 021. Topics in Modern Arab Literature
    • Staff.
  • DANC 049F. Repertory/Ensemble: Kathak
    • Staff.
  • FREN 109. Honors Seminar: Queering North African Subjectivities
    • Gueydan-Turek.
  • RELG 029. Islam, Race, and Genocide
    • al-Jamil.
  • RELG 053. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Islamic Discourses
    • al-Jamil.

Spring 2027

  • ARAB 004. Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II
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  • ARAB 012A. Advanced Arabic Conversation
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  • ARAB 012. Advanced Arabic II
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  • ARAB 022. Discourses of Oppression in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
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  • DANC 046. Kathak
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  • HIST 006B. The Modern Middle East
    • Shokr.
  • HIST 031. France in Algeria, France and Algerians, 1830-present
    • Brown.
  • RELG 008B. The Qur'an and Its Interpreters
    • al-Jamil.
  • RELG 100. Holy War, Martyrdom, and Suicide in Christianity, Judaism and Islam
    • al-Jamil.

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