Duke University offers an MA in Critical Asian and Middle Eastern Humanities that trains students in the written, visual, and performance cultures of the Middle East and East Asia.
Faculty specialize in Arab, Levantine, Persian, Iranian, Israeli, Palestinian, Ottoman, Turkish, North African, and African cultures and languages as well as Muslim, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and African diasporas. Faculty focus on fields and disciplines like critical theory, literature, linguistics, Marxism, poetry, anthropology, religion, film, mysticism, feminist studies, religious studies, and art.
Middle East faculty include: Professors Sarah Baker, Fadi Bardawil, Abbas Benmamoun, Shai Ginsburg, Erdag Goknar, Didem Havlioglu, Malachi Hacohen, Mona Hassan, Engseng Ho, Mohsen Kadivar, Mbaye Lo, Ellen McLarney, Negar Mottahedeh, Omid Safi, and Mustafa Tuna.