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The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: Abeer Mohamed
Mahmoud Darwish's "Rita and the Rifle" read by Abeer Mohamed, UCLA
Posted: 3/5/2010
The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: Concert
A concert by Turath Ensemble, with Special Guests honoring the life and creative work of Palestinian poet and author Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) and held November 5, 2009
Posted: 3/5/2010
The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon, New York University, reads "Think of Others."
Posted: 3/5/2010
The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish: Tamim Al-Barghouti
Tamim Al-Barghouti, Georgetown University, reads an excerpt from Mahmoud Darwish's "Mural"
Posted: 3/5/2010
Christopher Hitchens Delivers the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA
In this video, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens delivers the 2010 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture. The lecture was presented by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.
Posted: 3/3/2010
Iran: The Future of the Opposition and the Islamic Republic
Karim Sadjadpour, Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group
Posted: 2/25/2010
Arabs and Muslims in Mainstream American Culture
A paper presented by Louise Cainkar, Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Studies, Marquette University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
Culture and War in Iraq
A paper by Rochelle Davis, Assistant Professor of Arab Studies, Georgetown University (read by Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law). Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
Economic Roots of Iran's Long, Hot Summer of 2009
A paper presented by Arang Keshavarzian, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
Hawalas: Financing Radical Islam or Survival?
A paper presented by Khalid Medani, Assistant Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
One Hundred Years of Oil Income and the Iranian Economy: A Blessing or a Curse
A lecture in English by Professor Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge university. Part of the CNES Bilingual Lecture Series.
Posted: 2/23/2010
Tehran Political Posters Then and Now
A paper presented by Shiva Balaghi, Cogut International Humanities Fellow, Brown University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
The Global Kaffiyya Craze
A paper presented by Ted Swedenburg, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
The War Economy in Iraq
A paper presented by Pete Moore, Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
War, Citizenship and Memory in Iraq
A lecture by Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
Posted: 2/23/2010
Cultural Historian Delivers Inaugural Lecture as Gilbert Chair in Israel Studies
Professor Arieh Saposnik explores notions of the sacred and the profane in the founding of Jewish institutions in turn-of-the-century Palestine. The event represented a milestone for the Israel Studies Program, which was founded five years ago.
Posted: 2/19/2010
A Look at Ordinary People Caught in the Chaos of War
Freelance war reporter Anne Nivat eschews bodyguards and bullet-proof jackets when she works in places like Chechnya and Afghanistan. She insists on dressing like a local and sharing the danger with those whose everyday lives are touched by war.
Posted: 2/17/2010
Graduate Student Profile: Arshad Ali
An interview with Dr. Arshad Ali, a former Ph.D. student.
Posted: 2/16/2010
Graduate Student Profile: Ziad Abu-Rish
Video profile of graduate student Ziad Abu-Rish.
Posted: 2/16/2010
Orientalism in the Works of Paul Bowles
Lecture by Philip Schuyler, University of Washington
Posted: 2/4/2010
The Regional Context of Turkey's Foreign Policy
A lecture by Dean Ahmet Evin, Sabanci University
Posted: 2/4/2010
Race and the Traces of History
A lecture by Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University, Australia on January 25, 2010.
Posted: 1/28/2010
Before the Ruins: When Mahmoud Darwish met Walter Benjamin
A lecture by Sinan Antoon, New York University
Posted: 1/25/2010
Between Palestine and the Rand: Settler colonialism, labor and state violence.
A lecture by Zachary Lockman, New York University
Posted: 1/25/2010
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