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Foreign Policy Op-Ed by Burkle Center Visiting Fellow Dalia Dassa Kaye: Do Israelis Really Want to Bomb Iran?
Posted: 1/12/2012
Visiting Fellow Dalia Dassa Kaye: Israel and Iran: A Dangerous Rivalry
Burkle Center Visiting Fellow Dalia Dassa Kaye co-authors a RAND report regarding the increasingly hostile relationship between Israel and Iran, and the U.S.'s role in managing this rivalry.
Posted: 1/9/2012
What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters
Gil Hochberg In a conversation with Udi Aloni about the practice, art and theory toward binationalism.
Posted: 11/16/2011
Acclaimed Israeli writer, journalist and commentator to speak at UCLA
Yossi Klein Halevi will be on campus Nov. 16 and 17.
Posted: 11/2/2011
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
A lecture by Gilbert Achcar, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Posted: 10/31/2011
Visiting Burkle Center Fellow Dalia Dassa Kaye comments on the sale of U.S. bombs to Israel on NPR's All Things Considered
Dalia Dassa Kaye speaks with NPR's Mike Shuster regarding the sale of deep-earth penetrator bombs, or "bunker busters," to Israel in 2009.
Posted: 10/2/2011
Film series explores faces of Israeli social and cultural mosaic
A three-part documentary series exploring Israeli culture, politics and identity begins Sept. 26 with "The Name My Mother Gave Me."
Posted: 9/26/2011
Nazarian Center announces undergraduate essay competition winner
The Nazarian Center for Israel Studies is pleased to name Lisa Weisshar winner of the first UCLA Undergraduate Israel essay competition.
Posted: 6/20/2011
'Violins in Wartime' Discussion Draws 100 Guests
In an event marking Yom Ha-Atzma’ut, the Israeli day of independence, members of the public and the UCLA community engaged in a discussion with award-winning director Yael Katzir on her latest film, set against the backdrop of the Lebanon war of 2006.
Posted: 5/16/2011
Edward Said's Palestine/Israel: Inclusion Without Domination
A lecture by Nubar Hovsepian, Chapman University
Posted: 5/5/2011
Melting Pots and Promised Lands: Early Zionism and the Idea of America
A lecture by Hilton Obenzinger, Stanford University
Posted: 4/6/2011
Israeli Minister Discusses Disruptions in the Middle East
Minister of National Infrastructure Uzi Landau speaks on national resources and the unrest in Arab countries, in a talk sponsored by UCLA's Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Posted: 3/3/2011
Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Video
Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor of the New Republic, delivers the 2011 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture. The lecture was co-sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.
Posted: 2/14/2011
Leon Wieseltier Delivers Daniel Pearl Lecture
Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic and a prominent observer of the Middle East, said that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an idea worth defending, for the sake of the region. The Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series is hosted annually at UCLA by the Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 2/11/2011
Traumatic Memory Discourses in Israel: Holocaust History, Territory and Self-Critique
A lecture by Joseph Rosen, Department of History and Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence, Concordia University, Montreal
Posted: 1/28/2011
Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean
A lecture by Basem Ra'ad, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem
Posted: 1/12/2011
Israel's Deputy PM Assesses Mideast Security Challenges
Dan Meridor serves as deputy prime minister and minister of intelligence and atomic energy. On Nov. 29 at the law school, he warned of rising Iranian influence in the region, voiced his support for a two-state solution with the Palestinians, and raised questions about the future of armed conflict and international law.
Posted: 11/30/2010
Law and Politics in the Middle East Peace Process
The Honorable Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy
Posted: 11/29/2010
Two-State Solution Remains Best Option for Realists and Doves, Says PLO Ambassador
Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, who leads the Palestine Liberation Organization's diplomatic mission to the United States, told a UCLA audience that the PLO is firmly committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state within the framework of negotiations with Israel, while acknowledging that the negotiations may fail.
Posted: 11/15/2010
Preserving the Two-State Solution
A lecture by Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestine Liberation Organization Representative to the U.S.
Posted: 11/13/2010
Preserving the Two-State Solution
A lecture by Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestine Liberation Organization Representative to the U.S.
Posted: 11/12/2010
Israel and Apartheid: The Jewish State
A lecture by Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Senior Editor, Foreign Affairs
Posted: 10/25/2010
Israel, Iran, and the United States
A talk David Menashri is the incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies, Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.
Posted: 10/19/2010
UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Dedicated, Donors Honored
The event, which was attended by Jacob Dayan, Israel's consul general in Los Angeles, and Sherry Lansing, vice chair of the UC Board of Regents, honored the Iranian American couple whose foundation has donated a total of $5 million to create the new center.
Posted: 10/7/2010
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