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UCLA Ethnomusicologist on Arab Classical Sounds
Racy explains pleasures of a musical tradition to the Kansas City Star.
Posted: 10/19/2006
Gen. Wesley Clark Joins UCLA's Burkle Center
Clark will host a major conference on campus this winter on the future of the Middle East.
Posted: 9/27/2006
16th Annual Iranian Film Festival
Over the past 16 years the UCLA Film and Television Archive has presented an eclectic selection of the best new film and video works from Iran and the Iranian Diaspora. From the very beginning in 1990, the annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema has been one of the most eagerly anticipated festivals presented by the Archive, with packed houses nightly.
Posted: 9/25/2006
Perspectives on Israel Studies: A Personal View
by Professor Leonard Binder, Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
Posted: 9/25/2006
Armenians at Home
UCLA historian Richard Hovannisian instructs local K-12 teachers on more than a century of Armenian migrations to Southern California and elsewhere. His archive of interviews with 800 survivors of the Armenian Genocide is now digitized, with transcriptions and translations in the works.
Posted: 9/7/2006
UCLA Islamic Law Expert Threatened
Khaled Abou El Fadl tells the Los Angeles Times that false information about him and threats, relayed earlier this month by a local newspaper, amount to a 'solicitation of murder.' He also recounts a close call in April.
Posted: 8/28/2006
UCLA Fowler Museum to Premiere 'Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World' Oct. 29
The first major U.S. exhibition on Tuareg art and culture examines the history of "the Blue People of the Sahara," so-called for their indigo turbans that at times stain their skin and define their identity as they ride on majestic camels.
Posted: 8/25/2006
American in Beirut
UCLA Islamic Studies doctoral student Joanne Nucho went to Lebanon to study Arabic and a community in East Beirut. She ended up working to get out, a process that led her to new reflections on the region and her own family ties to it.
Posted: 8/24/2006
'Liminal Spaces: Photographs of Morocco by Rose-Lynn Fisher' Opens at the UCLA Fowler Museum Sept. 17
The exhibition features 48 black-and-white photographs that explore the theme of the "liminal," the sensory threshold that exists in social interactions, physical spaces, and desert and urban settings.
Posted: 8/22/2006
The Murder of American Values in Lebanon
Fighting in Lebanon and Israel 'might engulf the entire region as well as what is left of faith in American ideals in the Muslim world,' writes UCLA Fulbright Coordinator Ann Zwicker Kerr in the Aug. 14 Christian Science Monitor.
Posted: 8/14/2006
Israel's Outrageous Attacks
Israel is engaging in collective punishment of the people of Lebanon, writes UCLA Professor Saree Makdisi July 19 in the Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 7/24/2006
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Moves to UCLA
CNES hosts a conference marking the arrival of JMEWS's editorial operation at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. UCLA's Sondra Hale and UCSB's Nancy Gallagher will serve as co-editors.
Posted: 7/21/2006
The Middle East's Symbolic Slugfest
A need to protect symbols lies behind the latest Mideast violence, writes UCLA historian and CNES faculty member David N. Myers in the Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 7/14/2006
Top Scholar to Bolster Israel Studies, Contribute to Couple's Legacy
Search begins to fill UCLA academic chair endowed by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation. The foundation invests in programs in the areas of College Access, Healthcare, and Israel.
Posted: 7/12/2006
How can the Middle East diversify its social and economic development?
In early 2006, the Burkle Center for International Relations and the ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar co-sponsored a conference in Doha to explore the prospects for economic and social development in the Middle East.
Posted: 6/14/2006
Muslim American Poet Sets Down Stakes
University of Arkansas' Mohja Kahf asks what one more label could do for study of American writers, herself not excluded. The lecture is part of CNES-, CEES-, and government-sponsored sociology course on Muslims in Europe and North America.
Posted: 6/7/2006
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
Iranians Demand Change, Reject War by US, Says Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi
Human rights advocate denounces Iranian laws that harm children and women, set back path to 'advanced democracy.' Protesters interrupt speech; a few are ejected.
Posted: 5/17/2006
Iranian Lawyer to Give Talk on Human Rights
Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, was given the award for her dedication to human rights and a nonviolent, evolutionary process for change in the Iranian government.
Posted: 5/15/2006
Middle East Moments
Four scholars uncover, try out ways of seeing early photographs of region.
Posted: 5/9/2006
Institute's Centers Awarded $3.6 Million for Language and Area Studies Fellowships
Education Department's FLAS funds to support graduate students in 2006-10 through UCLA Latin American, Near Eastern, East Asian, and Southeast Asian studies centers. Asia Institute to increase number of awards.
Posted: 5/8/2006
14 Ways of Looking at a Bald Eagle
Veteran New York Times international reporter Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow, worries that Americans again harbor good intentions about Iran.
Posted: 5/3/2006
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
Islam and Politics, Muslim Diasporas, Historical Photography Anchor Spring Programs
More than 50 scholars from around the world participate in a host of academic activities sponsored by CNES
Posted: 4/5/2006
Generations of Arab Women
Jean Said Makdisi, memoirist and sister of the late scholar Edward Said, discusses her new family chronicle.
Posted: 3/27/2006
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