Teaching

Dr. Sa’ed Atshan has developed many courses on peace and conflict, humanitarianism, and the contemporary Middle East.

Self-Designed Courses

The Middle East and North Africa	Swarthmore College
Nature, Nurture, Sexualities	Emory University
Ethnographic Methods & Writing (graduate seminar)	Emory University
Contemporary Israel/Palestine	Emory University
Anthropological Perspectives: Middle East and North Africa	Emory University
Global Peace and Conflict	Emory University
Cultures of the Contemporary Middle East	University of California, Berkeley
Global Humanitarianism	University of California, Berkeley
Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies	Swarthmore College
Crisis Resolution in the Middle East	Swarthmore College
Global Responses to Violence (first year seminar)	Swarthmore College
Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change	Swarthmore College
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (includes a 10-day study trip to Israel/Palestine: winter 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)	Swarthmore College
Humanitarianism: Anthropological Approaches (honors seminar)	Swarthmore College
Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies	Tufts University
The Arab Spring and Nonviolent Strategic Action	Tufts University
Cultures of the Contemporary Middle East	Brown University
Decolonizing the Racialized Female Subject: Black and Indigenous Women (graduate seminar)	Brown University
The Arab Spring	Brown University
Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in the Middle East	Tufts University
Political and Social Movements in the Modern Middle East	Harvard University

Social Justice and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine	Boston College
Social Epidemiology	Birzeit University

Comparative Politics in the Middle East	Harvard University
Contemporary Political Islam	Harvard University
Globalization, Development, and the Middle East	Harvard University

Junior Tutorial in Social Anthropology	Harvard University
Dilemmas in Biomedical Ethics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Exercising Leadership: Mobilizing Group Resources	Harvard University