Maltese is spoken by only about 530,000 people worldwide, but it sparked a friendship between 2 UCLA grad students Jacqueline Jacobo | January 9, 2026 If you’re looking for an…
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Sean Brenner | December 5, 2025 For her 2024 book, “Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage,” Susan Slyomovics has been honored by the American Anthropological Association. Slyomovics, a UCLA distinguished professor of Near Eastern…
Read MoreJonathan Winnerman, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, studies kingship and sacred power in ancient Egypt and from a comparative perspective. He specializes in the texts and visual culture of the New…
Read MoreA new book edited by Carol Bakhos covers the extensive period between the rise of Alexander the Great and the emergence…
Read MoreGurdjieff Armenia 2025 Conference September 17-20 Organized by the Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies, UCLA Co-sponsored by the Institute for Armenian Studies, Yerevan State University together with the Dornsife Institute…
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Call for Applications for the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World announces a call for applications for the Morvarid…
Read Morewritten by Ashna Madni Who really wrote the Bible? A Dec. 3 lecture by William Schniedewind will offer a bold new answer to that age-old question. “Although the Hebrew Bible rarely speaks…
Read MoreUCLA recently hosted a small group of Egyptian and Sudanese scholars for a workshop focused on the exploitation of the Nile in both the ancient past and contemporary present. Held…
Read MoreIt is with great sadness that the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures reports the death of Senior Lecturer Emeritus Dr. Ralph Jaeckel on October 21, 2024. Dr. Jaeckel…
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