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Project Streams Twitter Updates from Egypt Unrest on Digital Map of Cairo
Subtitled "Voices from Cairo through Social Media," the program displays a new tweet every four seconds over a digital map of Egypt's capital, archiving messages and the precise locations in Cairo from which they were sent.
Posted: 2/7/2011
Coordinated Efforts Bring Bruins Safely Out of Egypt
An archaeological team's request to stay in Amarna, Egypt, where the situation was calm, was denied by the regional security organization. Evacuation of eight students and three faculty members began in earnest when the U.S. State Department recommended that Americans leave.
Posted: 2/4/2011
Urban Planning Student Lets Egyptians' Voices Be Heard
John Scott-Railton, who has done research and studied in Egypt, decided to begin relaying reports from Egyptians via Twitter and Youtube when the government shut down Internet and cell phone service last Thursday.
Posted: 1/31/2011
The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism 1860-1914
A lecture by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University
Posted: 1/27/2011
Calling High School Students: UCLA Has Summer Courses in Your Home Language
The Summer High School Language Program is geared toward students who speak one of the offered languages at home and want to improve their writing and reading skills.
Posted: 1/18/2011
Is Freedom of Speech Possible in the Arab World?
On Tuesday, September 28, UCLA's Center for Middle East Development (CMED) hosted a panel discussion on "Is Freedom of Speech Possible in the Arab World?" with Tim Sebastian, Dr. Asli Bali and Professor David Kaye.
Posted: 9/30/2010
Establishing Formal Rules such as Property Rights is a Promising Road to Sustainable Economic Growth and Peace
Elena Panaritis, author of Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), speaks at UCLA.
Posted: 12/2/2009
Transforming Americas Israel Lobby by Dan Fleshler
Book talk with Dan Fleshler, author of "Transforming Americas Israel Lobby: the Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change."
Posted: 12/2/2009
Egyptologist pulls together threads woven through ancient civilizations
UCLA professor Kara Cooney illustrates the parallels between six traditions across 12 cultures and 10 countries in a six-part Discovery Channel series airing this summer.
Posted: 6/30/2009
A Thousand and One Nights: Oral Epic Performance
The Tale of Anas al-Wujud and al-Ward fi-l-Akmam. An Oral Performance by Awadallah Abd al-Jalil Ali
Posted: 5/7/2009
UCLA Brings Egyptian Temple Karnak to Life
A virtual model and digital resources help students and instructors to learn about the historic, sacred site.
Posted: 4/22/2009
Renewable Energy for Urban Homes
Urban planning graduate student and Fulbright fellow T.H. Culhane introduces handmade solar water heaters in Cairo and thinks about how energy projects can address both poverty and environmental problems.
Posted: 4/9/2009
UCLA Opens Egypt's 1st Official Archaeology Field School for US Undergrads
Willeke Wendrich, a renowned UCLA Egyptologist, and her co-director Ren Cappers of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands, lead the 36-person field school. They arranged nine pairs of American-Egyptian student teams to work together.
Posted: 11/4/2008
UCLA-Dutch Team Uncovers Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement
The findings, which were unearthed in 2006 and are still being analyzed, also suggest possible trade links with the Red Sea, including a thoroughfare from Mesopotamia, which is known to have practiced agriculture 2,000 years before ancient Egypt.
Posted: 2/12/2008
Law Prof Reaffirms Islam's Moral Message
In Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt and Turkey, audiences of up to 1,000 people recently turned up to listen to him speak. In the United States, Abou El Fadl's views have made him unpopular among fellow Arab Americans.
Posted: 5/24/2006
Construction Begins on UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Egyptologists and UCLA's best technology centers commence the heavy lifting of rewriting ancient Egypt's history.
Posted: 4/6/2006
Juan Cole Examines Jihadist Groups
Back at UCLA for first of two events, professor and Internet blogger brings sociology of religion to bear on militant Islam's recruiting methods, lending support to view that Iraq invasion revived Al Qaeda.
Posted: 1/20/2006
U.S.–Arab Relations Broken After Iraq War, Scholar Reports
University of Maryland and Brookings Scholar Telhami says growing opposition to U.S. foreign policy is not the worst news for the superpower.
Posted: 10/25/2005
Cairo: Impact of War - While Cairenes are Subdued, Life Goes on
This article was written by Natasha Behbahany, a International Development Studies major at UCLA who lived in Cairo, Egypt and contributed to the Travel Guide Urban Lowdown.
Posted: 8/25/2005
The Tipping Game
This article was written by Natasha Behbahany, a International Development Studies major at UCLA who lived in Cairo, Egypt and contributed to the Travel Guide Urban Lowdown.
Posted: 8/25/2005
Moving On
About to take his BA in Poli Sci, Matthew Gottfried looks back on his EAP year abroad in Cairo
Posted: 5/16/2005
Prominent Egyptian Human Rights Activist Looks on the Bright Side of the Middle East
Former political prisoner Saad Eddin Ibrahim presents 7 reasons for optimism for the region.
Posted: 4/27/2004
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