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…
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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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