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.

Upcoming Events

Celebrating Ethnicity: Finding Common Ground
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sequoia Room

Arabs, Turks, and Europeans in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Thursday, November 12, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Turkish Piano Music: A Concert
Friday, November 13, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Jan Popper Theater

Jews from Libya: Cross-currents and Concretizations of Identity in Israel Today
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Negahi be qavanin-e mojazat-e Eslami dar Iran
Sunday, December 06, 2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Reflections on Sanctioning in Islamic Criminal Law in Iran
Monday, December 07, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Time to be announced.
314 Royce Hall

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Fall Quarter

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The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: A Conference

The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: A Conference

A conference that will bring together international writers and scholars to honor the life and creative work of Palestinian poet and author Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008).
Thursday, November 05, 2009
10:30 AM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall

Winter Quarter

Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization

Day 1 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time to be announced.
Location to be announced.

Spring Quarter

Call for Papers: State of the Art: Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

The link between the ideology of power and knowledge production about the Middle East/North Africa is a potent, generative and creative one. Our conference aim is to tap the most recent contributions to the field of the anthropology of the region ...
Thursday, April 01, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon