Responding to the national need for experts in Turkish language and culture, the course will enable students to access archival materials and conduct research. The Turkish language is rarely taught…
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UCLA Recruitment: Assistant Professor in Early Judaism
Published: August 1, 2017The 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 MoreJaffa Excavations Featured in Archaeology Magazine
Published: June 20, 2017NELC professor Aaron Burke’s research of the Egyptian fortress in Jaffa are the subject of Archaeology magazine’s cover story by Roger Atwood in the July/August 2017 issue. Read more: http://www.archaeology.org/issues/262-1707/features/5627-jaffa-egypt-canaan-colony
Read MorePersian for High School Students
Published: June 7, 2017Persian for Heritage Students July 10 to August 3, 2017 at UCLA Monday-Thursday 9:00am-2:00pm UCLA will offer a summer Persian class for high school students who are exposed to Persian…
Read MoreUCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Professor Nouri Gana Receives the Mellon New Directions Fellowship
Published: April 20, 2017The Division of Humanities is excited to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced Nouri Gana, an Associate Professor here at the department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, a…
Read MoreUCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Professor Robert K. Englund Receives Prestigious Grant for Research Collaboration on Big Data
Published: April 4, 2017The Division of Humanities is excited to announce that the Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Language,MTAAC, project co-directed by Robert K. Englund of UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures…
Read MorePourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World established at UCLA
Published: February 21, 2017By Margaret MacDonald UCLA has established the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World, the first center in the Western Hemisphere that aims to advance the knowledge of…
Read MoreIranian 187: Cities of Ancient Iran
Published: January 5, 2017Winter 2017 – MW 2:00-3:15pm, 101 Kaufman Hall – Instructor: Ali Mousavi A survey of historical cities and sites of Iran from 4000 B.C. to 1900 This survey course is designed…
Read MoreEthnomusicology 91L/161L: Music of Persia
Published: January 5, 2017Winter 2017 – Thursdays, 4:00-6:00pm, 1659 Schoenberg Music Building (SMB) – Instructor: Amir Hosein Pourjavady This class focuses on the performance of Persian classical music including the radif and tasnifs (vocal…
Read MoreProfessor Cooperson wins the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation
Published: December 14, 2016Join 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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