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An Epic Unity: The Hero Pattern and the Shahnama
A paper presented by Mahmoud Omidsalar, California State University Los Angeles. Part of the conference The Shahnameh: Iran's National Epic.
Posted: 6/28/2010
Reflections on Re-reading the Iliad and the Shahnameh
A paper presented by Amin Banani, UCLA. Part of the conference The Shahnameh: Iran's National Epic.
Posted: 6/28/2010
Women's Lamentations and the Ethics of War in Medieval Persia and Ancient Greece
A paper presented by Olga Davidson, Boston University. Part of the conference The Shahnameh: Iran's National Epic.
Posted: 6/28/2010
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
Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
A lecture by Afshin Marashi, California State University, Sacramento
Posted: 4/14/2010
Iran: The Future of the Opposition and the Islamic Republic
Karim Sadjadpour, Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group
Posted: 2/25/2010
Economic Roots of Iran's Long, Hot Summer of 2009
A paper presented by Arang Keshavarzian, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
One Hundred Years of Oil Income and the Iranian Economy: A Blessing or a Curse
A lecture in English by Professor Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge university. Part of the CNES Bilingual Lecture Series.
Posted: 2/23/2010
Tehran Political Posters Then and Now
A paper presented by Shiva Balaghi, Cogut International Humanities Fellow, Brown University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
Afghan Discourses of Occupation Today: Oral and Literary Proverbs and Aphorisms in Uncertain Times
A Lecture by Margaret Mills, Ohio State University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference.
Posted: 1/20/2010
The Temporality of Selfhood: Azhdaha-i Khudi as an Allegory of History
A lecture by Wali Ahmadi, UC Berkeley, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Intimate Realism: Recording the Experience of Exile in Second-Generation Refugee Poetry in Iran
A lecture by Zuzanna Olszewska, St. Johns College, Oxford University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Nation, War and Exile as Portrayed in Afghan Diasporic Fiction: The Case of Muhammad Asef Soltanzadeh
A lecture by Dr. Mir Hekmatullah Sadat, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Solitude, Diaspora, and Narration: Epic Memory in Afghan and Afghan-American Literature
A lecture by Shafiq Shamel, Stanford University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Turning on the Taliban: Radical fiction from the Sewing Circles of Herat
A lecture by Nushin Arbabzadah, UCLA, part of the Afghanistan in Ink conference.
Posted: 1/20/2010
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
Haleh Esfandiari: My Prison, My Home
Dr. Esfandiari speaks about her book "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran."
Posted: 12/1/2009
Haleh Esfandiari: My Prison, My Home
Dr. Haleh Esfandiari speaks about her book "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran." Monday, October 26, 2009 at Kerckhoff Grand Salon, UCLA.
Posted: 11/30/2009
Scholar Survives Political Imprisonment in Iran
Haleh 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.
Posted: 10/29/2009
The Peace Process in the Middle East: What is Going On?
Podcast of a lecture by Ayman Abdel Nour presented by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and the UCLA International Institute on March 11, 2009.
Posted: 10/9/2009
On the Iranian Streets: Tomorrow Begins Today
UCLA's Iranian American faculty members see Iran in a transitional period, with a public willing to withstand violence and intimidation to push for some level of reform.
Posted: 7/1/2009
New chair in Iranian studies
Hossein Ziai, professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies since 1988 and currently the director of the Program in Iranian Studies, has been named the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies. The chair, established in 2000, promotes innovative teaching and research on the traditions of Iran throughout the ages. Ziai has devoted his time to conducting research that encompasses Iranian intellectual and literary traditions with a focus on Illuminationist philosophy.
Posted: 6/18/2009
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