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Arabic digital humanities fails when English TEI templates erase script, waqf ownership, and community consent. This MA starts with methods: encoding, metadata, and exhibition copy that can exist in Arabic and English without claiming a collection you do not hold. GCC heritage visions, Levant manuscript economies, and Maghreb oral-history projects are regional facts. You will treat attestation of overseas library degrees as not evaluation of palaeography skill, and you will write a bilingual rights memo a family collection can live with. The award is academic. It is not multilateral agency employment, not a conservator licence, and not League of Arab States cultural-officer branding. It is for people who must keep heritage files honest when a smart-city slide has already promised a digital twin of a mosque. You will encode a rights-cleared folio simulation without claiming a museum holds it, write bilingual interpretation that does not calque English TEI labels, and design consent for oral history in Arabic-first communities. GCC heritage visions and Levant manuscript markets are calendars and economies, not multilateral agency products. Tuition-free online. No museum, UN, or LAS logos in photographs. MA Arabic Digital Humanities and Heritage Methods is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Arabic Script, Encoding, and Loss through Arabic Script, Encoding, and Loss; Metadata that Survives Two Languages; Oral History Consent as a File; Waqf and Family Collections; GCC Heritage Visions as Calendars; Levant Manuscript Economies, and finish on Ethics of Claiming a Collection. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Design Arabic-script metadata that is not an English calque Write a bilingual rights memo for a family collection Separate DH methods from museum-director claims Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Thirty-six credits: Arabic DH methods, heritage rights, bilingual interpretation, and a collection-file capstone. Tuition-free online. No museum, UN, or LAS logos in photos.
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Tuition is free. Examinations are free. There is no exam fee. Study from anywhere in the world.
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| ALU2501 | Arabic Script, Encoding, and Loss Students describe how the good, place, or practice is produced, moved, and lost. The module is Arabic Script, Encoding, and Loss.
| 3 |
| ALU2502 | Metadata that Survives Two Languages Students choose a measure a manager could collect and say how it would be wrong. The module is Metadata that Survives Two Languages.
| 3 |
| ALU2503 | Oral History Consent as a File Students compare two interventions and who gains or pays. The module is Oral History Consent as a File.
| 3 |
| ALU2504 | Simulated Collections and Rights Students recommend one operational change with the evidence attached. The module is Simulated Collections and Rights.
| 3 |
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| ALU2505 | Waqf and Family Collections Students describe how the good, place, or practice is produced, moved, and lost. The module is Waqf and Family Collections.
| 3 |
| ALU2506 | GCC Heritage Visions as Calendars Students choose a measure a manager could collect and say how it would be wrong. The module is GCC Heritage Visions as Calendars.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| ALU2509 | EN+AR Exhibition and Web Copy Students describe how the good, place, or practice is produced, moved, and lost. The module is EN+AR Exhibition and Web Copy.
| 3 |
| ALU2510 | Smart-City Twin Theatre Students choose a measure a manager could collect and say how it would be wrong. The module is Smart-City Twin Theatre.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| ALU2513 | Project Design for Constrained Labs Students describe how the good, place, or practice is produced, moved, and lost. The module is Project Design for Constrained Labs.
| 3 |
| ALU2514 | DH Research Methods Students choose a measure a manager could collect and say how it would be wrong. The module is DH Research Methods.
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Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 18 months. Teaching language: English and Arabic (bilingual assessment; academic Arabic required for AR-medium tracks). Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
This is a fully online award. You study from your country. No student visa and no campus relocation are required.
Degree tuition for this award is published as £0 / tuition-free on the online pathway. Examination or administrative fees may apply at checkout — never an annual tuition invoice. Check the Fees page for any extras.
Requirements are grouped on this page (academic, English, documents). Equivalent qualifications are considered. English may be waived after prior English-medium study.
Assessment is typically a mix of coursework, projects, and examinations. Doctoral awards include a thesis or dissertation and an oral examination. Details sit in the programme specification and module outlines.
Recognition of the award for local employment, professional licence, or ministry attestation is decided by your employer or regulator. Arab Leadership University publishes verification pages for certificates. We do not claim automatic equivalence in every country.
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| ALU2507 | Levant Manuscript Economies Students compare two interventions and who gains or pays. The module is Levant Manuscript Economies.
| 3 |
| ALU2508 | Attestation of Library Degrees versus Evaluation Students recommend one operational change with the evidence attached. The module is Attestation of Library Degrees versus Evaluation.
| 3 |
| 3 |
| ALU2511 | No Multilateral/LAS Logo Ethics Students compare two interventions and who gains or pays. The module is No Multilateral/LAS Logo Ethics.
| 3 |
| ALU2512 | Community Benefit without Extraction Students recommend one operational change with the evidence attached. The module is Community Benefit without Extraction.
| 3 |
| 3 |
| ALU2515 | Ethics of Claiming a Collection Students compare two interventions and who gains or pays. The module is Ethics of Claiming a Collection.
| 3 |
| ALU2516 | Capstone: Arabic Heritage Methods File Students recommend one operational change with the evidence attached. The module is Capstone: Arabic Heritage Methods File.
| 3 |