This is Not a Film - Exploration of Jafar Panahi’s Documentary
The isolation of house arrest, film as a tool for political expression, and the serpentine nature of Iranian cinema all arise in this thoughtful conve...
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Guest speakers, researchers and University of California faculty provide analysis and debate on this complicated part of the world.
Security for Israel and Her Neighbors: Challenges and Opportunities with Tzipi Livni - Herb York Memorial Lecture
Conflict and tensions in the Middle East have reached their highest point in years. Tensions and the risk of confrontation are growing between the U.S...
Does Trump Have a Middle East Policy?
The Trump Administration has an anti-ISIS military policy but has zeroed out reconstruction support for areas that have been liberated from ISIS in Sy...
Golda Meir Through a Feminist Lens
Author and Boston University law professor Pnina Lahav discusses her forthcoming biography, "Golda Meir: Through the Gender Lens." She explores the fi...
New Administration New Policy? How Changes in Washington Could Impact Israelis and Palestinians
The political atmosphere of the Middle East may change with the new administration. David Makovsky Ziegler, Distinguished Fellow and Director of the P...
Jonathan Gribetz Defining Neighbors: The Arab-Zionist Encounter on the Eve of Balfour
How did Zionist immigrants to early 20th century Palestine conceive of their new Arab neighbors, and how did the Arab natives make sense of the Jews a...
Empirical Studies of Conflict: Implications for ISIS and Syria featuring Eli Berman -- Osher UCSD Distinguished Lecture
Eli Berman, a former soldier for the Israel Defense Forces and now the research director for security studies for the UC Institute on Global Conflict ...
Hasan Kayali on the Middle East: What's Next for Washington?
Hasan Kayali, an associate professor of History at UC San Diego, surveys reaction in the Middle East to the election of Donald Trump. Trump. Series: "...
Ending the Cycle of Violence in Northern Iraq: The Role Ahead for Christians with Archbishop Bashar Warda -- Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Distinguished Lecture Series
Bashar Matti Warda, a Chaldean Catholic cleric and the current Archbishop of Erbil, speaks on the role that the Christians of northern Iraq are playin...
Living with the Holocaust with Tom Segev -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- Library Channel
Born in Jerusalem to parents who had fled Nazi Germany, Israeli journalist Tom Segev is a leading figure among the so-called New Historians, who have ...