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The Establishment of the Turks in the Islamic World
A paper presented by C. Edmund Bosworth, University of Manchaster.
Posted: 6/16/2010
The Short-Term Society, A study in the Long-Term Problems of Political and Economic Development in Iran
A lecture by Homayoun Katouzian, University of Oxford
Posted: 6/16/2010
The Waqf as an Instrument of Cultural Change in Seljuk Anatolia
A paper presented by Gary Leiser, Independent Scholar.
Posted: 6/16/2010
Trans-regional Contacts and Relationships: Turks, Mongols and the Delhi Sultanate in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
A paper presented by Sunil Kumar, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Posted: 6/16/2010
Turkish Language and Literature in Medieval and Early Modern India
A paper presented by Benedek Peri, Budapest University.
Posted: 6/16/2010
Eternal Stones: Historical Memory and Notions of History Among the Early Turkic Peoples
A paper by Peter Golden, Rutgers University
Posted: 6/15/2010
Archaeologists Find Oldest Leather Shoe
The 5,500-year-old enclosed leather shoe, found with the laces intact, is of a type known in climes distant from Armenia.
Posted: 6/9/2010
UCLA's Israel Studies Center Named for LA Philanthropists Younes and Soraya Nazarian
The Y & S Nazarian Family Foundation has made donations totaling $5 million to the university, which helped establish the Israel Studies Program in 2005 and created an endowment for the center.
Posted: 6/2/2010
Opportunities for Scholars and Students with the Council of American Research Centers
A talk with Dr. Mary Ellen Lane, Executive Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Posted: 6/2/2010
UCLA Conference in Doha Opens with Address by Qatari Emir
At the 5th annual conference on "Enriching the Middle East's Economic Future," held in conjunction with the Doha Forum, distinguished participants search for practical solutions to regional issues. The three-day event has been organized by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development.
Posted: 6/1/2010
RAND Corporation completes study on strategic decision making for Israel
Rand Corporation and Israel
Posted: 5/14/2010
Leaving Istanbul
Turkish director Atil Inac discusses the challenges of telling, in two countries and four languages, the story of a young ethnic Turkmen woman who is pressured into committing an act of terror and revenge. An on-campus screening and discussion of "A Step into the Darkness" concluded the 5th annual Southeast European Film Festival.
Posted: 5/11/2010
Can Obama Bring Peace to the Middle East?
Steven Spiegel, the director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA, presents the innovative and informal negotiation techniques that he is urging the Obama administration to employ as it pursues security in this historically volatile region.
Posted: 5/5/2010
Indus Urbanism and Trade: Recent Discoveries from India and Pakistan
A lecture by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin Madison
Posted: 4/29/2010
The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
A lecture by Marc David Baer, UC Irvine
Posted: 4/29/2010
Arab-Afghans, Jihad, and the Roots of 9/11
A lecture by Thomas Hegghammer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Posted: 4/26/2010
Devastation And Controversy: Consequences of the US Invasion for Iraqi Archives
A lecture by Jeff Spurr, Harvard University
Posted: 4/26/2010
Chilling Effect on Muslim Giving Examined at Law Conference
The UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law will devote one of its annual issues to papers emerging from the April 16 meeting on "Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror."
Posted: 4/21/2010
Can Israel Be a Jewish and Democratic State?
Ruth Gavison, Haim Cohn Professor of Human Rights, Faculty of Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem from Israel's Democracy: Past, Present, Future - Part 3.
Posted: 4/20/2010
The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: Fady Joudah
A translation and reading by Fady Joudah, from an excerpt of Mahmoud Darwish's "Mural."
Posted: 4/15/2010
The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: Jeffrey Sacks
A translation and reading by Jeffrey Sacks, UC Riverside, from Mahmoud Darwish's "I See My Ghost Coming from a Distance."
Posted: 4/15/2010
Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
A lecture by Afshin Marashi, California State University, Sacramento
Posted: 4/14/2010
A Night of Arab and Brazilian Music
A concert featuring A.J. Racy, Samba Society, and Special Guests
Posted: 4/5/2010
The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: Concert
An evening of music by the Turath Ensemble honoring the Palestinian poet and author Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008). The program features poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, songs by Marcel Khalife, and the music of Sayyid Darwish.
Posted: 4/2/2010
'Lebanon Was Going to Stay'
In the latest of a series of articles about the lives of Middle Eastern women for Maingate, the American University of Beirut's quarterly magazine, UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr tells the story of her former roommate Naziha.
Posted: 3/12/2010
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