UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies

Story Archive

  • Hip Hop Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: Local Perspectives from the Global Hip Hop Nation
    A year-long film screening/speaker series exploring the local permutations of Hip Hop Culture in the Middle East and North Africa within the widely varying configurations of language, culture, politics, and religion in the region.
  • Of Sheiks & Cinema
    Jonathan Friedlander has spent 30 years collecting pop culture artifacts that reflect our fascination with the Middle East. Books, movies, videos, even cigarette packs are part of the tireless UCLA scholar's collection of Orientalist Americana at the Young Research Library. Now he's traveling the U.S. to photograph the majestic, Orientalist movie palaces of the 20th century before they're all torn down or turned into drugstores.
  • CNES Launches North African Outreach Initiative
    Lecture by renowned Algerian cartoonist Slim, films on Islam inaugurate year-long program
  • Mardi Gras, Middle Eastern Style
    The fact that New Orleans has a very small Middle Eastern population doesn't stop carnival krewes--organizations that put on parade and balls for the carnival season--from pulling out all the stops on the road to a make-believe Mecca.
  • Missed Connections
    Barbara Slavin discusses opportunities for reconciliation between Iran and the United States.
  • The 98 Percent Strategy
    Nearly every women's rights bill passed by the Iranian reformist parliament that the Guardian Council effectively cast out in 2004 met one doom or another. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, a former legislator, illuminates the paths of Iranian-style gridlock.
  • Making Sense of Osama
    A daylong conference recently attempted to clear some of the fog surrounding the real Osama bin Laden, who, if he's still alive, turns 50 this month. Titled "Jihadi Islam," the Nov. 13 event was sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies and held at the UCLA Faculty Center.
  • Hope, Economic Transformation in Iraqi Marshlands
    Peter Reiss, director of a USAID program to restore the world's second-largest wetlands, explains how Saddam Hussein's drainage of the area has altered an ancient culture.
  • International Conference Honors the Legacy of Clifford Geertz
    A photographic exhibition focusing on Sefrou, Morocco, highlights the work of Paul Hyman
  • WORKSHOP ON JIHADISM AND JIHADI MOVEMENTS
    Typologizing jihadi movements, historicizing their emergence, tracing their ideologies

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