The Middle East Librarians Association Presents the 2016 David H. Partington Award to Two Librarians of Middle East Studies at its Annual Meeting, November 16, 2016, in Cambridge, MA. David G….
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Published: November 16, 2016UCLA’s Excavations in Jaffa were Published in Israel’s Haaretz Newspaper
Published: October 21, 2016“Previously unknown Canaanite revolt against Egypt revealed in ancient Jaffa. There is no record of the Canaanites ousting their Egyptian overlords, but 3,100-year-old remains of fiery destruction suggest they did just…
Read MoreTwo NELC Undergraduates Profiled for UCLA Humanities Website
Published: September 23, 2016Two of our undergraduate students, Marisol Fernandez (Middle Eastern Studies, Semitics) and Elizabeth Ho (Jewish Studies), were recently written about for the UCLA Humanities website. You can read their inspiring life stories, and…
Read MoreEthnomusicology 91L/161L: Music of Persia
Published: September 20, 2016Fall 2016 – Thursdays, 4:00-6:00pm, Schoenberg 1659 – Instructor: Amir Hosein Pourjavady This class focuses on the performance of Persian classical music including the radif and tasnifs (vocal repertoire). This is…
Read MoreArt History 185: Architecture of Iran
Published: September 15, 2016Fall 2016 – Mondays, 3:30-5:20 PM, Dodd 275 – Instructor: Dr. Keelan Overton This seminar examines icons of Iranian architecture from the early Islamic to early modern periods. Each week…
Read MoreNew Testament Job at UCLA
Published: September 14, 2016The department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA has just opened a new search for an Assistant Professor of New Testament/Early Christianity. Description: The Department of Near Eastern Languages…
Read MoreDr. Jeremy Smoak Received the 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award
Published: June 2, 2016Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy Smoak who has just received a 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA. To view all Distinguished Teaching Awardees please click here.
Read MoreDr. Shushan Karapetian Wins Society of Armenian Studies Award
Published: May 17, 2016Dr. Shushan Karapetian, NELC Alumna, lecturer and current Post Doc, received Society of Armenian Studies Award for 2011-2014 for her dissertation “‘How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken Armenian?’”: A…
Read MoreDr. Alice Mandel Wins 2016 Daniel Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship
Published: May 9, 2016Dr. Alice Mandel, NELC Alumna and Lecturer, wins the 2016 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship has been awarded to Alice Mandell (Lecturer, Department of…
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