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17/08/2026

The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies has awarded several Mosafer fellowships during the AY 2026-27 application cycle. The increased number of fellowships reflects the Center’s dedication to supporting the research and professionalization of graduate students across UCLA campus whose work focuses on the Middle East and North Africa. The fellowships have been awarded to graduate students in Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture and Urban Design, French and Francophone Studies, History, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Sociology. Read more about our fellows and their projects: https://bit.ly/4x4ccD4

Photo: Jake Hill, 2026.

10/08/2026

Richard M. Eaton, a well-known and respected social-cultural historian of Islam and premodern India (1000—1800), has been awarded the 25th Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award in Islamic Studies by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Eaton has made great contributions to Islamic studies, especially Islam in premodern South and Southeast Asia, where the majority of Muslims in the world live today. His scholarly work focuses on the interactions between the Hindu and Islamic realms of India, as well as the impact of Persian culture.

The Della Vida Award is a tradition established in 1966 by CNES founding director, Gustave E. von Grunebaum, to honor outstanding scholars in Islamic Studies. This year, the award ceremony and accompanying conference, Sufis in Premodern Persianate Societies and Politics, will take place on November 5.

Read more at bit.ly/4xDJV6x

04/08/2026

On April 29, 2026, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies hosted the graduate colloquium “The Visual Culture of Algeria Through Exchange, Circulation, and Global Networks,” the first event at UCLA devoted entirely to the study of Algeria’s art history. Organized by graduate students Ava Hess (Art History), Yubai Shi (Art History), and Sarp Tanrıdağ (Architectural History), the program fostered interdisciplinary dialogue across art history, history, political science, literature, and architecture.

Read more about the colloquium: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/article/297617

Image: Lumière du Crépuscule, artwork by Khadija Seddiki. Courtesy of the artist.

04/05/2026

🎥 Join UCLA Library for a screening of “Ojalá Supieras” (I Wish You Knew), a documentary excavating the long-suppressed history of Islam in colonial Mexico. Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and inquisitorial records, director Mariam Saada reconstructs the lives of those persecuted for crypto-Islamic practice and reveals the intertwined presence of Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Indigenous peoples at the heart of colonial society.

📢 The screening will feature a Q&A with Dr. Saada and a curated display of UCLA Library holdings.

To RSVP, visit: ucla.in/3O36Y9J

27/04/2026

Bruin Giving Day is April 28-29! During this annual campus-wide challenge, consider a contribution to the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Gifts like yours support our student fellowships and travel grants, faculty research initiatives, community engagement, and public programming and lectures.

Visit the UCLA International Institute Bruin Giving Day page https://bit.ly/4cBNbaJ, find the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, and click "Give" to make your contribution.

24/04/2026

Join us next week for a hybrid graduate student colloquium on visual culture of Algeria. The colloquium will bring together early-career scholars working on the visual culture of Algeria from the Ottoman period to the present. It will focus on the movement of artists, artworks, materials, and ideas across local, regional, and global networks, situating Algerian visual culture as a site of innovation, negotiation, and exchange.

For more details and to register: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/17524

15/04/2026

In March 2026, the University of California at Los Angeles and Université Internationale de Rabat jointly organized a two-day international conference, “Landscapes in Transition: Human-Environment Relations Across Mountainscapes,” held in Rabat, Morocco, marking another step forward in the growing collaboration between the two universities. The collaboration is initiated by Aomar Boum (UCLA Anthropology, interim director of CNES, Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, and member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco) and further developed by Boum alongside Stephen Acabado (UCLA Anthropology, director of CSEAS) and Abdellatif Bencherifa (UIR).

Read the entire conference summary here: https://forms.international.ucla.edu/cnes/article/294682

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