http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes Facilitate cutting-edge research about Middle East and Near Eastern Studies at UCLA en-us Shortly after accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, Amira Hass delivers two talks on campus sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies. "Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945," Hass's mother's account of surviving the Nazi concentration camp, has been republished in English.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=112804Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, tells the harrowing story of her time as a political prisoner in Iran to a packed room of scholars and well-wishers on campus. She was a guest of the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle East Development.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=112675Summer workshop for K-12 educators explores food in Middle Eastern and North African History and Cultureshttp://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=112077At a conference that considered the impact of the French philosopher Michel Foucault on Middle East studies, visiting historian Janet Afary explains that the story of Iranian women since the Revolution is not entirely one of repression.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=108038Janet Afary, a visiting professor in the Department of History, will discuss her forthcoming book, "Sexual Politics in Modern Iran" (Cambridge University Press, 2009), at a public event on May 19. This related op-ed recently appeared in the Guardian newspaper.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=107133Conferences on Women in Conflict Zones, Iranian-American Writers, and Foucault in the Middle Easthttp://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=106976Israel's recent assault on Gaza by land, sea and air against the backdrop of its control over the territory was a disturbing violation of Palestinians' human rights, speakers at the symposium said.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=103719Photographer Nik Wheeler, a Vietnam War photographer, photojournalist and now a freelance photographer, took the iconic National Geographic images of the Marsh Arabs, or Mad'an.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=102207The duo, Noam Yifrach and Younis Al-Khatib, are the heads, respectively, of the Maghen David Adom (MDA) and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), the Israeli and Palestinian equivalents of the Red Cross.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=101334A year-long film screening/speaker series exploring the local permutations of Hip Hop Culture in the Middle East and North Africa within the widely varying configurations of language, culture, politics, and religion in the region.http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/home/article.asp?parentid=97305