Events
The Center sponsors a wide array of academic and cultural activities each year, attracting UCLA students, faculty and staff, members of the Southern California academic community, Middle Eastern Americans and the broader public. Conferences, workshops, lecture series, films screenings, museum exhibitions, concerts, and dance performances sponsored by the Center explore the politics, history and cultures of the Middle East and broader Islamic world.
Programs in 2007-08 include:
Conferences and Workshops
Jihadi Islam
Islam Re-Observed: Clifford Geertz in Morocco
Owning the Past: Archaeology and Cultural Patrimony
in the Late Ottoman Empire
JMEWS Research Roundtable
Lecture Series
Historiography of the Middle East*
Anthropology of the Islamic World*
Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran
Islam in the Balkans*
Middle Eastern Americans on the Move*
Film
Arab Film Festival, Los Angeles
AFI Film Festival
Exhibitions
Middle Eastern Americans On The Move
Sefrou, Morocco Observed: The Photographs of Paul Hyman
*New Series
