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Is Freedom of Speech Possible in the Arab World?
On Tuesday, September 28, UCLA's Center for Middle East Development (CMED) hosted a panel discussion on "Is Freedom of Speech Possible in the Arab World?" with Tim Sebastian, Dr. Asli Bali and Professor David Kaye.
Posted: 9/30/2010
Devastation And Controversy: Consequences of the US Invasion for Iraqi Archives
A lecture by Jeff Spurr, Harvard University
Posted: 4/26/2010
Journalists Under Fire: An Independent Reporter's View from Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan
A public lecture by Anne Nivat, Award-Winning Paris-Based Freelance War Reporter and Writer.
Posted: 3/29/2010
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
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
Establishing Formal Rules such as Property Rights is a Promising Road to Sustainable Economic Growth and Peace
Elena Panaritis, author of Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), speaks at UCLA.
Posted: 12/2/2009
Transforming Americas Israel Lobby by Dan Fleshler
Book talk with Dan Fleshler, author of "Transforming Americas Israel Lobby: the Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change."
Posted: 12/2/2009
The Peace Process in the Middle East: What is Going On?
Podcast of a lecture by Ayman Abdel Nour presented by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and the UCLA International Institute on March 11, 2009.
Posted: 10/9/2009
From Baghdad to Stockholm
In an article for Maingate, the American University of Beirut's quarterly magazine, UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr tells the story of her Iraqi-born classmate Samya, who fled Iraq for Sweden in 2006.
Posted: 9/10/2009
The Marshes of Mesopotamia: Dried, Restored, Will it Last?
A public lecture by Azzam Alwash, CEO, Nature Iraq
Posted: 7/6/2009
Language Teaching, Meet Innovation
This spring, two centers under the UCLA International Institute went live with standalone, online courses on Azeri and the Iraqi dialect of Arabic and with a custom application that allows instructors to share web-based lessons. Meanwhile, the New Language Classroom has added videos for instructors, and the Language Materials Project launched a portal for K-12 schoolteachers on "less commonly taught" languages.
Posted: 6/17/2009
What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
A public lecture by Nadje Al-Ali, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Posted: 2/19/2009
Fowler Exhibit Showcases Marsh Arabs and Their 'Floating Houses'
Photographer Nik Wheeler, a Vietnam War photographer, photojournalist and now a freelance photographer, took the iconic National Geographic images of the Marsh Arabs, or Mad'an.
Posted: 12/15/2008
Wanted: Active UN to Lead on Iraq
Veteran journalist Helena Cobban says that only the United Nations is in a position to convene nations interested in stability in Iraq, citing evidence of a shift of global power and influence away from the United States.
Posted: 10/22/2008
UCLA Study of Satellite Imagery Casts Doubt on Surge's Success in Baghdad
Night light in neighborhoods populated primarily by embattled Sunni residents declined dramatically just before the February 2007 surge and never returned, suggesting that ethnic cleansing by rival Shiites may have been largely responsible for the decrease in violence for which the U.S. military has claimed credit.
Posted: 9/19/2008
Iraq - Beyond Benchmarks, A Regional Perspective
Ambassador Lawrence E. Butler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, comments on our current state of relations with Iraq, and the political, security and economic challenges ahead.
Posted: 4/29/2008
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.
Posted: 11/28/2007
Get Out of Iraq Within a Year, Urges Former US Defense Official
Larry Korb, a former assistant defense secretary under Reagan, wants to keep a regional military presence and to keep intervening in Iraq, but he thinks that continuing the occupation does more harm than good. He and Phillip Carter, a UCLA alum and Iraq war veteran, take questions on the war and Gen. Petraeus's strategy.
Posted: 10/1/2007
Petraeus' Optimistic Take on Iraq War Not a Consensus
The Daily Bruin, September 27, 2007
Posted: 9/27/2007
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