Events
The Center sponsors a wide array of academic and cultural activities each year, attracting UCLA students, faculty and staff, members of the Southern California academic community, Middle Eastern Americans and the broader public. Conferences, workshops, lecture series, films screenings, museum exhibitions, concerts, and dance performances sponsored by the Center explore the politics, history and cultures of the Middle East and broader Islamic world.
Programs in 2008-09 include:
Conferences and Workshops
Fez, Morocco, Crossroads of Knowledge and Power: Celebrating 1,200 Years of Urban Life
Filming the Eichmann Trial
Lecture Series
Anthropology of the Islamic World
Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran
Hip Hop in the Middle East and North Africa
Historiography of the Middle East
Islam in Central Asia
Film
Arab Film Festival
AFI Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival
Music
Fez: Queen of Cities
Exhibitions
North Africa in American Popular Culture
