Middle East Studies Program

The Islamic Studies Library is just one resource available to students.

McGill University offers a variety of research and teaching resources pertaining to the Middle East. These include the Institute of Islamic Studies, the Centre for Developing Areas Studies, and the Inter-University Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. Both CDAS and ICAMES maintain resource and documentation centers. The Institute for Islamic Studies library maintains a collection of more than 100,000 volumes on all aspects of Islam and the Middle East, in addition to the regular holdings of the university library. Additional resources exist at Montreal's three other universities.

Finally, Montreal itself -- a large cosmopolitan city, with large vibrant communities of Middle Eastern origin -- is a significant resource in and of itself (a point underscored by the more than a dozen Middle Eastern restaurants within a few minutes walk of the McGill campus!)