A panel of experts discuss the ongoing human rights crisis in northwestern China (Xinjiang/East Turkestan) at UCLA. Panelists focus on the history of the Uyghur community, ethnicity and religion in…
Read MoreHistorian Nile Green has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Green will use his fellowship to complete a concise book that asks…
Read MoreCongratulations to UC Press author Kevan Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has received the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s 2018 Nikki Keddie Book…
Read MoreFaculty affiliate Lamia Balafrej’s latest work, The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting, has been published by Edinburgh University Press. The text reveals how artists engaged with theories…
Read MoreNELC Assistant Professor Luke Yarbrough has been awarded the 2019 Al-Masāq Article Prize for his article “A Christian Shi’i, and Other Curious Confreres: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Getting Along with…
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