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 be found at herbertadavidson.com. The department owes Dr. Davidson a great debt, and offer our heartfelt condolences to his friends and family. I was…
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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, with contributions by Steven M. Goodman and Wilma Wetterstrom (Oriental Institute Publications 144, 2021). This study of a thirteenth-century dwelling on Egypt’s Red Sea Coast…
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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 to English translation of Impostures by Al-Hariri. The Sheikh Zayed Awards are the most prestigious and lucrative awards in Arabic literature: winners of the translation category…
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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 for the 2021-2022 academic year. During the fellowship, she will work on her second book project, entitled “Kings, Queens, and Caesars: Gentile Rulers in Early…
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 celebrated work of Arabic literatures, Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East. Since its publication, Impostures has…
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, which begins July 1, 2021. The candidate must have experience teaching Hebrew language courses at the university level and have a Ph.D. in Near Eastern…
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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 book, Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought (Cambridge University Press). All are invited to attend the Award Ceremony on December…
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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 at the Pourdavoud Center in 2018, thanks to a gift from the Trust of Morvarid Guiv. Named after the late Iranian philanthropist Morvarid Guiv, this…
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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 studies. Norma died peacefully this week at the age of 95 after a long and rich life. She earned her BA later in life, in…
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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 is designed for students who have no previous knowledge of the language and who wish to learn the fundamentals of the modern Turkish language using…
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