“Previously unknown Canaanite revolt against Egypt revealed in ancient Jaffa. There is no record of the Canaanites ousting their Egyptian overlords, but 3,100-year-old remains of fiery destruction suggest they did just…
Read MoreTwo of our undergraduate students, Marisol Fernandez (Middle Eastern Studies, Semitics) and Elizabeth Ho (Jewish Studies), were recently written about for the UCLA Humanities website. You can read their inspiring life stories, and…
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Fall 2016 – Thursdays, 4:00-6:00pm, Schoenberg 1659 – Instructor: Amir Hosein Pourjavady This class focuses on the performance of Persian classical music including the radif and tasnifs (vocal repertoire). This is…
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Fall 2016 – Mondays, 3:30-5:20 PM, Dodd 275 – Instructor: Dr. Keelan Overton This seminar examines icons of Iranian architecture from the early Islamic to early modern periods. Each week…
Read MoreThe department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA has just opened a new search for an Assistant Professor of New Testament/Early Christianity. Description: The Department of Near Eastern Languages…
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Jeremy Smoak who has just received a 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA. To view all Distinguished Teaching Awardees please click here.
Read MoreDr. Shushan Karapetian, NELC Alumna, lecturer and current Post Doc, received Society of Armenian Studies Award for 2011-2014 for her dissertation “‘How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken Armenian?’”: A…
Read MoreDr. Alice Mandel, NELC Alumna and Lecturer, wins the 2016 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship has been awarded to Alice Mandell (Lecturer, Department of…
Read MoreFor the first time, the Hebrew E-Workbook offers a full year of systematic and intensive online teaching and practice of Hebrew grammar for students of Hebrew as a foreign language…
Read MoreThe career of Professor Richard Frye in Iranian studies spanned more than half a century during which time he was fully occupied researching, writing, and teaching. Our field is so…
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