Lamia Balafrej

Lamia Balafrej named Getty Research Institute scholar

Manon Snyder | October 24, 2022 Lamia Balafrej, an associate…

Inaugural faculty recipients of Mellon Foundation “Data, Justice and Society” grants

By Munia Bhaumik The following UCLA faculty members…
Alexandra Stern and Abel Valenzuela

UCLA College welcomes new deans Alexandra Minna Stern and Abel Valenzuela

Alex Stern

Humanities for the 21st century: A conversation with incoming dean Alex Stern

Jonathan Riggs | October 11, 2022 Alexandra Minna Stern…
Image of Manuscript of religious commentary. In this image, al-Taftāzānī’s sharḥ (commentary) on al-Nasafī’s al-ʿAqāʾid al-Nasafīyya (the creed of an-Nasafī) can be seen within the textblock. In the marginalia and between the text, glosses on this commentary and intertextual references by several different scholars can be found.

Students make remarkable finds in UCLA’s ‘Encountering Arabic Manuscripts’ course

The collaboration between the Islamic studies program and UCLA…
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UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture Announces SNF & Ioannis P. and Eirini Caloyeras Lectureship

The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for the…
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Department of Asian Languages & Cultures receives $3.7 million in gift commitments

Gifts from UCLA Buddhist Studies scholar Robert Buswell and his…
Historic image of cameramen recording Michi Tanioka, 5, as she waits to be sent from Los Angeles to the Manzanar prison camp in April 1942.Image credit: Library of Congress/Russell Lee

Exhibition puts viewers in midst of WWII-era removal of Japanese Americans

‘BeHere / 1942,’ presented by the Yanai Initiative of UCLA…
A photo of a member of the humanitarian search-and-rescue group Águilas del Desierto.

Professor’s Award-Winning Documentary on Migration

  By Alison Hewitt   When UCLA professor Maite…