Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: Munich-Berlin Middle East Summer School

The Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP), Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies (INMO) and Middle East and International Affairs Research Group (MEIA Research) join forces and offer an intense summer course in Munich and Berlin on the history, politics and cultural affairs in the Middle East. Course: August 3 - 21, 2020 Arrival: August 2, 2020 Departure: August 22, 2020 Website: www.meia-misu.de The Middle East is one of the most exciting as well as most critical world regions in terms of global politics, world economics and social and cultural affairs. In this respect, the 2020 Munich-Berlin Middle East Summer School aims at providing students with a broad understanding of the key political, economic, and societal developments in the contemporary Middle East and of the region’s inter-dependencies and interactions with major countries and regions around the globe. In the seminars, students will be taught by academics and practitioners with long-standing experience in the Middle East in an interactive way. The program also aims at engaging them in a dialogue with students from the region in focus. Upon successful application, students will become experts on the Middle East, receive 6 ECTS credits for their performance and visit public and private institutions and cultural sites in Berlin and Munich.