Middle East

As part of an international competition, they created the “Safe Spot” campaign to undermine the recruiting tactics of the Islamic State group by using the Internet to foster ideals of acceptance, safety and community.

Law professor Asli Bâli writes that the United States should open its borders to 400,000 Syrian refugees in the next four years, because the U.S. bears much responsibility for the humanitarian crisis.

The much-debated nuclear agreement with Iran is now a fact and should be given a chance to work, a panel of experts from UCLA and the RAND Corporation said during a discussion that drew a packed crowd to a lecture hall in Bunche Hall recently.

UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and UCLA Center for Middle East Development present a panel discussion surrounding the Iran nuclear deal 12 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16, at UCLA’s Bunche Hall.

As part of the Hammer Museum’s Forum, Sen. Bob Graham, co-chair of the joint Congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will address part of the Sept. 11 report that remains classified.

Lovraj and Dolly Talwar of the United Arab Emirates became fans of UCLA when their son became a Bruin. Their enthusiasm is one reason why more UAE undergrads than ever are coming this fall.

Ten UCLA students will be headed for talks with staff at the State Department, White House and United Nations and other Middle East experts before heading for ground zero of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

In an evening that mixed Hollywood glamour with serious intellectual conversation, the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies raised nearly $900,000.

Middle East scholars at UCLA brought the terrorist group ISIS out of the shadows at several public talks on campus over the past few months.

The UCLA Center for World Health and its partners currently participate in 170 projects in 65 countries worldwide. It focuses not only on education, training and capacity building to improve health, but projects also include research and clinical care initiatives.

Political scientist Steven Spiegel says that the best way to forge a lasting security agreement with Iran is by working with Iran’s potential victims to make a new treaty effective.

History professor James Gelvin writes that the chances for negotiating a settlement in Syria might increase if the different players stopped examining the conflict in isolation.

The Center for Middle East Development will honor Leonard Binder, a scholar of Middle Eastern politics.

A UCLA undergraduate sociology student and grandmother of seven, Parvin Arman, 70, faced extraordinary obstacles in trying to attain an education in her native Iran.

Gen. Wesley Clark, senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, says the U.S. response to the ISIS threat in the Middle East must combine diplomatic and economic assistance to our allies, with a more limited military commitment.

UCLA archaeologist Giorgio Buccellati, who has been working on excavating an ancient city in Syria for almost two decades, is working remotely with a team of villagers in the region to protect the site from being destroyed in the ongoing civil war.

Can music create a connection that years of politics and diplomacy have failed to build? Faculty and students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music think that music can build such a bridge.