The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures is saddened to announce the passing of Professor Herbert A. Davidson (1932-2021), Professor Emeritus of Hebrew. Information about the funeral arrangements can…
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The Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department is proud to announce the publication of The Sheikh’s House at Quseir al-Qadim: Documenting a Thirteenth-Century Red Sea Port By Katherine Strange Burke,…
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The Near Eastern Language and Cultures Department is thrilled to announce that our own Dr. Michael Cooperson has just won the 2020/21 Sheikh Zayed Award Translation Prize for his Arabic…
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Catherine Bonesho has received one of the fellowships from the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan related to the study of Diversity in Second Temple Judaism…
Read More The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures is proud to announce the success of our Dr. Michael Cooperson’s recent book, Impostures (NYU Press 2020). A groundbreaking translation of a…
Read MoreThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA is seeking a part-time Lecturer to teach six courses of Hebrew Language (Elementary and Intermediate) during the 2021-2022 academic year,…
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Luke Yarbrough has been awarded one of the two runner up prizes in this year’s British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize for his recent…
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The UCLA Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is pleased to announce the awarding of the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies. This fellowship was established…
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The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures is saddened to announce the passing of Norma Kershaw, prominent scholar, educator, and philanthropist in the fields of archaeology and cultural…
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Register now for Elementary Turkish! TURKIC 101A – Elementary Turkish MW 10:00-11:50am, F 10:00-10:50am Location @ Zoom For more information, contact Dr. Beyza Lorenz at blorenz@humnet.ucla.edu This elementary-level Turkish course…
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