The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA is seeking a part-time Lecturer to teach Elementary Arabic and an Arabic-language pedagogy course (six courses) during the 2021-2022 academic…
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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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Narseh’s Diadem: Religion, Royalty, and Power under the Early Sasanians This talk focuses on the Sasanian king Narseh (293-302 CE), who celebrated his accession to the throne through the bilingual…
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Book Talk – Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (University of California Press, 2020) by Nazanin Shahrokni To register and receive the Zoom webinar information, please…
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Book Talk – Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (University of California Press, 2020) by Nazanin Shahrokni To register and receive the Zoom webinar information, please…
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Pahlavi Iran and Global History To download the full program of events, click here. This final panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran,…
Read More Pahlavi Foreign Relations To download the full program of events, click here. This third panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran, 1921-1979: A…
Read More Pahlavi State and Society To download the full program of events, click here. This second panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran, 1921-1979:…
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