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Orientalism in the Works of Paul Bowles

Lecture by Philip Schuyler, University of Washington

Friday, January 29, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Gamelan Room, 1659 Schoenberg Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Philip Schuyler is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Washington.   A specialist in the music of North Africa and the Middle East, he has carried out extensive research in Morocco and Yemen over the past forty years.  Among his publications are an ethnographic film (The Master Musicians of Jahjouka), field recordings for UNESCO and various American labels, articles in scholarly journals, a New Yorker profile of the sculptor, James L. Acord, jr, and Apocalypse Observed (Routledge, 2000), with John R. Hall and Sylvaine Trinh.  

Cost: Free and open to the public.

For more information please contact

Amy Bruinooge, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
cnes@international.ucla.edu
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