Two 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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Ethnomusicology 91L/161L: Music of Persia
Published: September 20, 2016Fall 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…
Read MoreArt History 185: Architecture of Iran
Published: September 15, 2016Fall 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 MoreNew Testament Job at UCLA
Published: September 14, 2016The 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 MoreDr. Jeremy Smoak Received the 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award
Published: June 2, 2016Congratulations 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 Wins Society of Armenian Studies Award
Published: May 17, 2016Dr. 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 Wins 2016 Daniel Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship
Published: May 9, 2016Dr. 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 MoreMigrating the Hebrew E-Workbook’s Audio files to Kaltura
Published: April 26, 2016For 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 MoreIn Memory of Richard N. Frye, 1920-2014
Published: March 28, 2014The 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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