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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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    • 228 EPISODES


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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.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2021


    Lecture with Nina (Ergin) Macaraig

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021


    Lecture with Leonard Andaya (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 42:15


    A lecture with Alden Young (UCLA)

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    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


    A lecture with Brahim El Guabli (Williams College)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2021 46:43


    A lecture with Paul Silverstein (Reed College)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 47:05


    Lecture with Cihan Tuğal (UC Berkeley)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2021 42:59


    A lecture with Scott Lucas (University of Arizona)

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    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


    Lecture by M'hamed Oualdi (Sciences Po-Paris)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2021


    Panel with Ethel Wolper (University of New Hampshire) and Aomar Boum (UCLA)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021


    Panel with Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto, Mississauga) and Lamia Balafrej (UCLA)

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    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)

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    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)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 42:29


    Lecture with Taylor Moore (UC Santa Barbara, History)

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    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


    A lecture by Jessica Marglin (USC)

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    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)

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    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


    Lecture with Melissa Bilal (UCLA)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 65:23


    Lecture with Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

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    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)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 32:01


    Lecture with Benjamin Thomas White (University of Glasgow)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2020 42:28


    Lecture with Dr. Kameelah Mu'min Rashad (Muslim Wellness Foundation)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 40:05


    Lecture with Nora Berend (University of Cambridge)

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    Rethinking the Dhimma System: Comparative Perspectives in Legal History

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2020 35:17


    Lecture with John Tolan (Université de Nantes)

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    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

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    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


    Lecture with Michael Cooperson (UCLA)

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    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


    Lecture with Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Bucknell University)

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    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

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    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)

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    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)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 60:40


    A book talk by Joshua Cole (University of Michigan)

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    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


    A lecture by Laura Robson (Portland State University)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2020


    A lecture by Farzin Vejdani (Harvard University)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2020


    A lecture by Lital Levy (Princeton University)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2020 77:00


    A lecture by Marina Rustow (Princeton University)

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    The Future of al-Andalus

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2019 51:06


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

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2019 64:17


    A lecture by Chris Silver (McGill University)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2019 50:23


    A lecture by Driss Ksikes (Insitut des Hautes Etudes Management)

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    Ottoman Imperial Echoes in the Post-War Arab East

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2019 42:26


    A lecture by Michael Provence (UC San Diego)

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    Researching Identity Politics and Development in the Middle East

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2019 50:14


    A lecture by Melani Cammett (Harvard University)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 1: Jerrilyn Dodds (Sarah Lawrence College)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 1: Julia Clancy-Smith (University of Arizona)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 1: Heghnar Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Keynote: Zeynep Çelik (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 2: Selim Kuru (University of Washington)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 2: Nicolas Dufetel (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 2: Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi and Collège de France)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 3: Ussama Makdisi (Rice University)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 3: Burçak Özlüdil Altin (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 3: Marc André (Université de Rouen)

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    Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    Panel 3: Samia Henni (Cornell University)

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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2019 49:47


    A lecture by Oren Kosansky (Lewis and Clark University)

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