Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies

The Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies is interdisciplinary and specialises in studying several regions of the Afro-Asian world. The department brings together experts who conduct research on the history, social, political, and cultural development of major countries in Western, Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa, as well as Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, the 22 Arab states of the Maghreb and the Middle East, and the countries of Central Asia. The main goal of the department is to train highly qualified specialists in Asian studies, both for academic and practical fields. The department staff conducts lectures and seminars on language disciplines, history and source studies, politics and international relations, geography and social anthropology, religious studies, philosophy, ethnopsychology, literature, linguistics, culture, and art of the regions under study. A key focus of the department is the development of African studies and the formation of new interdisciplinary and interregional research directions, serving as a foundation for productive cooperation between young specialists, students, and postgraduates.