Online Conference: Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East, Center for Near Eastern Studies (UCLA), December 4, 2020 @ 12:00 – 2:45 pm

On Friday, December 4, from 9 - 11:45 am Pacific (12 - 2:45 pm ET), UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies will host the online conference, “Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East.” Global Academy scholars Dilsa Deniz (UC San Diego), Seyed Masoud Noori (NYU), Haydar Darici (American University), and Melissa Bilal (UCLA) … Continue reading Online Conference: Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East, Center for Near Eastern Studies (UCLA), December 4, 2020 @ 12:00 – 2:45 pm

Talk: “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, October 29, 2024 @ 7 – 10 pm ET

Where: Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 When: Tuesday, October 29, 2024 / 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) "Between the 1850s and World War I, the Ottoman Empire welcomed about a million Muslim refugees from Russia. In his new book, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State, Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky examines how Circassian, Chechen, Dagestani, and … Continue reading Talk: “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, October 29, 2024 @ 7 – 10 pm ET

Workshop: “Sites of Encounter in the Muslim World: Cairo & Delhi,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 7, 2024

"When: Thursday, November 7, 2024 / 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM (Pacific Time) This program, organized by UCLA History-Geography Project, and co-sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies Program and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, will help educators in applying the California History-Social Science Framework approach to 7th grade world history, centering Cairo and … Continue reading Workshop: “Sites of Encounter in the Muslim World: Cairo & Delhi,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 7, 2024

Panel: “The Legacies of Anti-colonial Struggle in Algeria: A Panel Honoring the Life and Activism of Elaine Mokhtefi,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 8, 2024 @ 3:00 pm

"Where: 10383 Bunche Hall When: Friday, November 8, 2024 / 12:00 PM Born in New York City, Elaine Mokhtefi has been an anti-racist and anticolonial activist since the early 1950s. She spent the years 1962-1974 in Algeria, where she worked as a journalist and a functionary in Algeria’s first post-independence government. Her deep engagement with the National Liberation … Continue reading Panel: “The Legacies of Anti-colonial Struggle in Algeria: A Panel Honoring the Life and Activism of Elaine Mokhtefi,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 8, 2024 @ 3:00 pm