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Whither Syria?

A lecture by James Gelvin, UC Los Angeles

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
NELC Department Seminar Room
389 Humanities
UCLA

James L. Gelvin is professor of modern Middle Eastern history at UCLA. He was graduated from
Columbia University (A.B.), the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
(M.I.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.). He has taught at Boston College, Harvard University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the American University in Beirut. A specialist in the
modern social and cultural history of the Arab East, he is author of Divided Loyalties:
Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (University of California Press,
1998), The Modern Middle East: A History (Oxford University Press, 2004, 2007, 2011), The
Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (Cambridge University Press, 2005, 2007),
along with numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes. He is currently working on a book
about the current uprisings in the Arab Middle East for Oxford University Press.

 

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact

Johanna Romero
Tel: 310-825-1455
romero@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

Sponsor(s): Department of History, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures