Welcome to MEALAC ... and now to MESAAS

The Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) is planning to change its name to MESAAS--the Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies.

The change of name is awaiting formal approval, so in the Registrar's Directory of Classes, the Graduate School online application process, the list of Columbia College majors, and all other official Columbia pages you will still find us for the time being under the name MEALAC.

However, the department already has a new website to go with its new name, which we invite you to preview here.

While the information on the old website, which you can access via the menu on the left, is still current, the new site contains a large amount of additional information, especially for prospective graduate students.

Preview the new MESAAS website