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Podcasts from public lectures for those interested in learning about the Middle East and its related fields of study.

Podcasts from the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies


    • Aug 27, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
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    An Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2021


    An intensive online workshop featuring leading authorities on the study of Arabic manuscripts.

    Sites of Encounter - Malacca and Ottoman Empire, 1400-1800 Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2021


    Sites of Encounter - Malacca and Ottoman Empire, 1400-1800 Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021


    After Sudan: Hajj Hamad and the Search for the Horn of Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 42:15


    Khatibi and His Jews: Constructions of the Figure of the Jew in Abdelkébir Khatibi's Writings

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 45:19


    Berbers, Blacks, Jews: The Colonial Legacies and Racial Politics of the Amazigh Revival

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2021 46:43


    Caring for the Poor: Islamic Benevolence and the End of Neoliberalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 47:05


    Zaydi Adaptations of the Sunni Tradition in Yemen: The Case of Qur'an Commentaries

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2021 42:59


    Ottoman Legacies in Colonial North Africa (mid-19th century-1920s): Building on Micro-History and Legal Cases

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 37:59


    The Making of Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces, Part 2A

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2021


    The Making of Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces, Part 1A

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021


    The Making of Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces, Part 1B

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021


    Panel with Amy Landau (UCLA) and Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)

    Book launch: Domenico Ingenito's "Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry" (Brill, 2020)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 61:41


    A conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) and Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia)

    Amuletic Archives: Writing Magico-Material Histories of the Middle East

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 42:29


    Jews and Legal Belonging in the Modern Mediterranean: The Life and Afterlife of Nissim Shamama (1805-1873)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2021 42:12


    Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2020 56:46


    Panel with Haydar Darici (American University), Serra Hakyemez (University of Minnesota), and Melissa Bilal (UCLA)

    A Foe of Injustice and Prejudice: Srpuhi Dussap and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Armenian Feminist Thought

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2020 33:27


    The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 65:23


    Performance Art, Cultural Memory, and the Uighur Crisis

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2020 69:21


    Lecture with Jessica Batke (China File) and Mukaddas Mijit (Independent Scholar)

    Khayri Rida’s Journey: Finding the Syrian State in the French Mandate Period

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 32:01


    Race, Religion, and COVID-19: Black Muslims and the National Black Muslim COVID Coalition

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2020 42:28


    Medieval Minorities: The Example of Muslims in the Kingdom of Hungary

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 40:05


    Rethinking the Dhimma System: Comparative Perspectives in Legal History

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2020 35:17


    Forum on Remote Research Possibilities for Graduate Students - Session 4 (UC Library)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2020 63:56


    Panel with Iman Dagher (Arabic and Islamic Studies Catalog Librarian, UCLA); Heather Hughes, (Subject librarian for Comparative Literature, Global Studies, and Middle East Studies, UC Santa Barbara); and Mohamed Hamed (Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Stud

    Sites of Encounter - Southwestern Asia, 300-1200: Baghdad and Nishapur Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 56:28


    Sites of Encounter - Southwestern Asia, 300-1200: Baghdad and Nishapur Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 38:07


    Geopolitical Implications of COVID-19 for the Middle East

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2020 80:03


    A panel with Hesham Youssef (United States Institute of Peace), Dalia Dassa Kaye (RAND), and Ehud Eiran (Stanford University); Moderated by Kevan Harris (UCLA) and Dov Waxman (UCLA) on the geostrategic, political, security and economic consequences of the

    Forum on Remote Research Possibilities for CNES Graduate Students - Session 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 43:39


    Panel with Virginia Danielson (Director of Libraries, NYU Abu Dhabi), Roberta L. Dougherty (Librarian for Middle East Studies and Curator for the Near East Collection, Yale University)

    Forum on Remote Research Possibilities for CNES Graduate Students - Session 1

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 60:04


    Panel with Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Dale J. Correa (University of Texas at Austin)

    The Constantine Murders of 1934: Provocation and Antisemitism in Interwar French Algeria

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 60:40


    A Historiographical Gap? Ethnopolitics and the Question of Mass Violence in the 20th Century Middle East

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2020 45:33


    DO NOT PUBLISH - Religious Minorities before the Law: Seeking Justice in a Fragmented Legal System

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2020


    Postarabic Poetics: Accent, Affect, and Language Politics in Recent Israeli Culture

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2020


    Lost Archives, Sacrosanct Wastebins and the Jewish Communities of the Medieval Islamicate World

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2020 77:00


    The Future of al-Andalus

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2019 51:06


    A lecture by Eric Calderwood (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

    Recording the Maghrib: Jews, Muslims, and Music in the 20th Century

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2019 64:17


    Public Space in North Africa Today: Through Art Spaces, Cultural Movements and Literary Icons

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2019 50:23


    Ottoman Imperial Echoes in the Post-War Arab East

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2019 42:26


    Researching Identity Politics and Development in the Middle East

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2019 50:14


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Mahia on the Market: On the History of a Moroccan Jewish Commodity

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2019 49:47


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