Image description: UCLA Library, Professor Luke Yarbrough, top right, Azeem Malik, bottom left, and pages from volumes in the Islamicate Manuscripts Initiative. UCLA Humanities | June 24, 2025 Since 2022,…
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Gina Konstantopoulos is Associate Professor of Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies and has worked at UCLA since 2021. Her work centers on religion, magic, and literature in Mesopotamia, with a focus…
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Lara Fabian works as an Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department. Her upbringing was peripatetic, but most of her adult life was spent…
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Campus leaders, faculty, community members celebrate launch of UCLA Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions Photo: M. Rahim Shayegan, director of the Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center;…
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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The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in ancient Iranian studies at the rank of…
Read MoreDr. Kara Cooney, Professor of ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has just published Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in…
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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…
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