Welcome to the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) at Rutgers University. Established in 2008 within the School of Arts and Sciences, AMESALL was founded on a unique vision: to study the languages, literatures, and cultures of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia not as isolated regions, but as a single, interconnected geo-cultural space. Unlike traditional "Area Studies" programs or Western-centric Comparative Literature departments, AMESALL challenges students to explore the deep historical cross-fertilization and syncretic cultural traditions that bind these three vast regions together.
