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Middle Eastern Communities in Latin America

The objective of this symposium is to initiate a discussion at UCLA on multiple facets of Middle Eastern communities in Latin America with the objective of elaborating a broader research project.

Thursday, May 15, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Speakers:

• John Tofik Karam, DePaul University, “Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil”
•  Camila Pastor, UCLA, “The Mashreq in Mexico: Making Class in the Postcolonial World”
•  Christina E. Civantos, University of Miami, Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity”

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact

Diliana Peregrina
Tel: (310) 825-4571
dperegri@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/lac/

Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Latin American Institute