This course is an anthropological introduction to the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, which is often labeled as the “Arab” or “Muslim World.” Course content is attentive to diverse experiences of everyday life and to the perspectives of minorities living in the MENA region and in diaspora. Course topics include religion and secularism, collective identities, gender, and political life examined in a variety of contexts, primarily through the experiences of youth as documented in ethnography.