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Hip Hop Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: Local Perspectives from the Global Hip Hop Nation
A 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.
Posted: 9/16/2008
Seeking 'Spatial Justice' for World's Disabled
Victor Pineda, a doctoral student in urban planning, will return to Dubai on a Fulbright-Hays award in December to monitor the implementation of an ambitious disability rights law. He argues that the built environments we live in largely determine our abilities and who we are.
Posted: 9/5/2008
Heritage Classes Aim for Preservation
The National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA has created summer courses to help high school students in Russian and Persian.
Posted: 8/26/2008
UCLA Helps High School Students to Master the Languages of Home
Two summer courses on campus for the high school set, Persian for Persian Speakers and Russian for Russian Speakers, are about acquiring the skills to impress in languages that L.A.-area students have used since they were small children. The UCLA Center for World Languages created the courses with federal funding.
Posted: 8/4/2008
Course Saves Debate for the Chat Room
Although the international crowd in Dr. Sami Chetrit's "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Film" shares opinions in class, the students open up more in the password-protected space of an online chat board.
Posted: 7/31/2008
Of Sheiks & Cinema
Jonathan Friedlander has spent 30 years collecting pop culture artifacts that reflect our fascination with the Middle East. Books, movies, videos, even cigarette packs are part of the tireless UCLA scholar's collection of Orientalist Americana at the Young Research Library. Now he's traveling the U.S. to photograph the majestic, Orientalist movie palaces of the 20th century before they're all torn down or turned into drugstores.
Posted: 7/16/2008
LA Times Highlights Good Deeds of Islamic Studies Graduate
Parisa Popalzai received a PhD in Islamic Studies from the UCLA International Institute in the 2008 winter quarter. Soon she'll be off to help Afghan copatriots in two big endeavors.
Posted: 7/10/2008
Archaeologists Hope to Reach Accord in Mideast
The authors of this op-ed, scholars at USC and UCLA, created the Israeli-Palestinian Archaeology Working Group to determine what archaeological material is disputed and to formulate recommendations for policymakers.
Posted: 7/1/2008
Scalia's Fear Factor
His dissent in a key terror case makes it harder to solve the Gitmo problem, writes UCLA's David Kaye in The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 6/16/2008
Autobiography and the Great War: Rethinking Arabo-Turkish Identity after Gallipoli
A public lecture by Salim Tamari, Institute of Jerusalem Studies, delivered on May 27, 2008.
Posted: 6/11/2008
Connected Revolutions: Armenians and the Russian, Ottoman, and Iranian Revolutions in the Early Twentieth Century
A public lecture by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach, delivered on May 28, 2008.
Posted: 6/11/2008
Antoin Sevruguin and the Art of Photography in Nineteenth Century Iran
A public lecture by Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles delivered on May 13, 2008.
Posted: 6/10/2008
Crossing the Sectarian Divide in Lebanon
UCLA Fulbright Coordinator Ann Kerr reflects on her visit to Lebanon in early May.
Posted: 6/3/2008
UN Ambassador: Human Dignity is Solution to Middle East Peace
UCLA Today, May 20, 2008
Posted: 5/20/2008
Ambassador Khalilzad Addresses Role of Students in Middle East Peace
Following the Annual 2008 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace speech at UCLA, Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, addressed the assembled students and discussed their role in the struggle for peace in the Middle East.
Posted: 5/6/2008
Surge? Working. Iraqis? Better Off. Next US President's Options? Open.
Lawrence E. Butler, the deputy assistant secretary of state who oversees U.S. policy in Iraq, offers an optimistic assessment of Iraq's prospects for a UCLA audience.
Posted: 5/1/2008
Iraq - Beyond Benchmarks, A Regional Perspective
Ambassador Lawrence E. Butler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, comments on our current state of relations with Iraq, and the political, security and economic challenges ahead.
Posted: 4/29/2008
Killing Memory: Ethnicity, Religion and the Destruction of Culture in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s
A public lecture by Andras Riedlmayer, Harvard University delivered on April 15, 2008.
Posted: 4/22/2008
Killing Memory: Ethnicity, Religion and the Destruction of Culture in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s
A public lecture by Andras Riedlmayer, Harvard University delivered on April 15, 2008.
Posted: 4/22/2008
Novels and Iranian History: Beyond Diaspora
A public lecture and reading by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, France, delivered on April 16, 2008.
Posted: 4/22/2008
Emroozeh Chegooneh Mitavan Irani Bood (How to be an Iranian Today)
A public lecture by Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto, delivered on April 13, 2008.
Posted: 4/21/2008
The Changing Concept of the "Intellectual" in Iran Today
A public lecture by Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto, delivered on April 14, 2008.
Posted: 4/18/2008
Humanitarian Intervention and the Middle East: A Moral and Security Imperative
The Humanitarian Intervention Task Force (HITF) was established by Professor Steven Spiegel, Director of the UCLA Center for Middle East Development, in response to a request from the Ford Foundation to examine the question of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect as they relate to the Middle East.
Posted: 4/16/2008
No Sex in the City: Personal Accounts of a Generation of Women in the PLO
A public lecture by Suad Amiry, Director of Riwaq: the Centre for Architectural Conservation, Palestine, delivered on April 8, 2008, discussing her new book "No Sex In the City."
Posted: 4/11/2008
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