Podcasts from the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies episodes:

• November 15, 2012Labour Agency in Refashioning the Discourse of Modernity and Social Developments in Iran [Forudastan va Bazkhani-ye Goftman Tajadod dar Iran]

  A lecture by Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History.

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• November 08, 2012Perish the Thought: Israel and the Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War

  A lecture by Dr. Avi Raz, Oxford University

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• November 07, 2012The Particularities of Our Culture [Ekhtesasat-e Farhangie ma]

  A lecture by Morteza Mardiha, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (lecture in Persian)

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• November 02, 2012Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprising

  A November 1, 2012 lecture by Professor James Gelvin, History Department, UCLA

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• October 29, 2012Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me

  Renowned Palestian poet Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah visit UCLA for a poetry reading on October 25th, 2012.

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• October 29, 2012Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me

  Renowned Palestian poet Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah visit UCLA for a poetry reading on October 25th, 2012.

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• October 08, 2012Nowhere to Turn: Abuse and Exploitation of Migrant Workers in the Arab World

  A lecture by Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch

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• October 04, 2012What Happens After Zionism

  Editors/authors present two new books on the Israeli/Palestinian conundrum

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• September 19, 2012In The Name of Iran (in Persian)

  A book reading by Parastou Forouhar, Artist and Author

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• June 12, 2012Between Minorities and the Masses: The Paradoxes of Kamal Junblat (1917-1977)

  A talk by Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto.

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