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A Deal with Iran is Possible, Peace is Not

The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is not irrational—the current regime needs conflict with the United States to perpetuate itself in power, said Professor Mansour Farhang. He advised the United States to reach an implicit understanding with the regime that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons.
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Introducing young students to Arabic, Persian and Turkish

The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies is launching the “Listen to Learn” website to introduce American students to critical Middle Eastern languages.
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WORKSHOP ON JIHADISM AND JIHADI MOVEMENTS

Typologizing jihadi movements, historicizing their emergence, tracing their ideologies

Center Cosponsors 2007 AFF and AFI Film Fests

27 features, shorts and documentaries screening at locations around the city, including UCLA, USC, the Writer's Guild Theater, and the ArcLight Theater

Not To Be Missed: Middle Eastern Americans on the Move

UCLA Today notes an exhibition co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Historiography of the Middle East

New lecture series organized by Professor James Gelvin, UCLA

Middle Eastern Americans On The Move

A groundbreaking exhibition of the literary, cinematic and scholarly output of this diverse community, and UCLAs impact on the field of Middle Eastern American Studies, is on display from September 17 through December 21, 2007 in the Powell Library Rotunda.

17th Iranian Film Festival

17th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema presented feature films, documentaries, and shorts from Iran and the diaspora.

CNES Celebrates Golden Anniversary

The UCLA National Resource Center and Organized Research Unit boasts some 70 faculty members, 250 current graduate students, and over 500 PhDs in Middle East and Islamic Studies.

Slyomovics Named Director of Near East Center

Anthropologist Susan Slyomovics takes the helm of CNES a year after her arrival at UCLA. Her current research focuses on human rights in the context of Morocco and Algeria's reparations commissions and the French colonial infrastructure in North Africa.

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