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Department of Middle East at the Charles University in Prague

Department of Middle East at the Charles University in Prague

The Department of Middle East is one of the departments at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. It carries out education and research programmes concerning history and contemporary realities of the Middle East and North Africa. It provides all grades of the higher education – BA, MA or Ph.D. It offers modern-structured education programmes called Middle Eastern Studies and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. In its BA branch, the Middle Eastern Studies programme offers three varieties of specializations: Arabic Studies, Iranian Studies and Turkology. In the variety of the subsequent MA studies it offers specializations History and Cultures of the Middle East and Languages and Literatures of the Middle East. In addition to that, the Department also dedicates itself to research activities.