At the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, NELC Chair Dr. Kara Cooney was awarded the Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award for When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt (2018). This award is presented to the author/editor of a book published in the last two years that offers a new…
Read MoreThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures announces that Biblical Hebrew Language now fulfills the Foreign Language Requirement at UCLA. Sign up for Hebrew 110A, 110B, and 110C now! This sequence of courses introduces students to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of biblical Hebrew. Students learn to read and translate biblical Hebrew narrative and…
Read MoreThe Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies with interests that engage broader cultural and intellectual traditions, are transdisciplinary in scope, and grounded in philological expertise. The position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor…
Read MoreUCLA Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World seeks applications for an Academic Coordinator to serve as Assistant Director to lead and coordinate the Center’s administrative, research and scholarly programs and initiatives. The position is full time and would begin November 1, 2019. Under the supervision of the Director of the Pourdavoud Center,…
Read MoreNELC Assistant Professor Luke Yarbrough has been awarded the 2019 Al-Masāq Article Prize for his article “A Christian Shi’i, and Other Curious Confreres: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Getting Along with Unbelievers,” published in al-Masāq in 2018. The prize was awarded for the best article in 2017 and 2018. Past awardees of this prize can be…
Read MoreFall Quarter SEPT 23-DEC 13 Sacred Kingship Rolfe Hall 3108 9:30am – 10:45am Tuesday & Thursday Take Ancient Near East 177, and you will: Discuss the connection between kingship and religion Analyze the methods used to create a living god on earth, a walking talking contradiction Learn about the how a system that concentrates absolute…
Read MoreChloe Landis, a Departmental Scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, pursuing a masters degree in Egyptology with an emphasis on Egyptian art, has received the 2019-2020 Morgan H, Harris, Jr. Endowed Scholarship for College Honors Students.
Read MoreThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA is seeking a Lecturer to teach three courses in Elementary Modern Eastern Armenian and three courses in Intermediate Modern Eastern Armenian during the 2019-2020 academic year, which begins July 1, 2019. The candidate must have experience teaching Armenian language courses at the university level. A…
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 is to teach students how to understand and translate spoken language while also helping filmmakers, journalists, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) reach a broader audience. The…
Read MoreIn her latest book, UCLA’s Kara Cooney notes how a ruler’s gender matters far less than whose agendas are served Over the course of 3,000 years of Egypt’s history, six women ascended to become female kings of the fertile land and sit atop its authoritarian power structure. Several ruled only briefly, and only as…
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