The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures is proud to share the news that while studying an untitled text as part of UCLA’s “Encountering Arabic Manuscipts” course, Brooke Baker,…
Read MoreThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA is seeking a part-time Lecturer to teach Elementary Arabic and an Arabic-language pedagogy course during the 2020-2021 academic year. A…
Read MoreThis week NELC Professor Michael Cooperson appeared on the Groks Science Podcast to discuss Impostures, his new translation of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī. He explains what makes the original Maqāmāt so distinctive…
Read MoreThe UCLA Subtitle Project, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, has recently launched a video captioning service on English and Arabic websites. The goal of this project…
Read MoreMolly Courtney, a PhD student of modern Arabic literature in the NELC department, has received a fellowship from the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA). As a CASA fellow, she…
Read MoreRecent graduate, Levi Thompson, receives 2017 – 2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Brown University’s Pembroke Center. Dr. Thompson is the Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s…
Read MoreThe Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in early Judaism at the rank of Assistant…
Read MoreJoin us in congratulating Professor Michael Cooperson on winning the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation. Last year, the prize’s debut, awards were given for Arabic to and from English, Arabic to and from Turkish, and…
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