Global Campus
Arab World

The programme offers two tracks:

• • A two-year track (full post-graduate programme) provides students with a solid theoretical basis, multidisciplinary knowledge and skills, and an informed and critical understanding of the field of human rights and democratic governance with a focus on the Arab region.
  • An accelerated one-year track that gives direct access to the second year of the programme with additional foundational and specialisation courses from the first year.

The programme is taught by a diverse faculty of academics and practitioners from over 12 countries and is organised in four streams that provide theoretical grounding, practical insights and a critical perspective:

• • Human Rights: Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural
  • Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law
  • Contemporary dynamics in the Arab World
  • Applied Human Rights: Research and Professional Skills

Courses belong to three categories: core, foundational and specialised

Year 1

– Autumn Semester: September to December | Saint Joseph University in Beirut & In the field
Students take foundational courses (e.g. Geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa) and the Human Rights Lab on War Memory. This semester also includes short field visits to research centres and NGOs working on population and issues that are  crucial for ArMA (e.g. women, children, LGBTIs, detainees, refugees; conflict, memory and reconciliation, education, electoral reform)

– Winter Period: January | Saint Joseph University in Beirut & In the field
Within the course ‘Applied Research in Democracy and Human Rights’, students engage in field research on a collectively chosen topic. During the first week, they refine their research question and develop research tools; in the second week, they conduct field work outside of Beirut; in the third week, they return to Beirut to process, analyse and interpret the data they have collected and present it to the public.

– Spring Semester: February to May | Saint Joseph University in Beirut
Students take specialisation courses (e.g. Gender Policies and Women’s Rights) and the Human Rights Lab on The Forcibly Disappeared.

– Summer Period: June to July | Hosting organisations across the region
This period is devoted to internships: short (4 credits), medium (6 credits) or long (10 credits)

Year 2

– Autumn Semester: September to December | Saint Joseph University in Beirut
Students take core courses (e.g. Political Parties and Pressure Groups in MENA)

– Spring Semester: February to May | Member and Partner Universities Across the Arab World
Students carry out their personal research and complete their thesis in one of the partner universities across the region. They can also take classes at Birzeit University, Cairo University, the International University of Rabat, and Carthage University.

– Summer period | Saint Joseph University in Beirut
Students return to Beirut to design and implement a project within the course Applied Research in Democracy and Human Rights, as well as additional core courses.

• Saint Joseph University in Beirut (Lebanon)
• The Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark)
• University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
• Cairo University (Egypt)
• University of Jordan (Jordan)
• Birzeit University (Palestine)
• University of Carthage (Tunisia)

Fees are calculated depending on the number of credits; each credit costs 66.67 euros.

• One-year track: between 5,000 and 6,000 euros, depending on the number of courses taken (70 to 90 ECTS)
• Two-year track: 4,000 euros

Financial support (full or partial tuition waiver and/or contribution towards living expenses) is awarded to a limited number of students on the basis of academic achievement, need and geographical distribution.