CALIFORNIA

The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2nd edition

A book talk with author James L. Gelvin, Dept. of History, UCLA and Nouri Gana, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures & Dept. of Comparative Literature, UCLA

Sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Los Angeles

Thursday, May 07, 2015
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA

It’s been more than four years since the first of the Arab uprisings broke out in Tunisia and three years since James L. Gelvin wrote the first edition of The Arab Uprisings.  In their discussion, Profs. Gelvin and Gana will explore not only the trajectories of the uprisings in the past four years and the prospects for a “new Middle East,” but the difficulties and rewards of writing “contemporary history,” and the role of the public historian.

James L. Gelvin is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, his Master’s in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has taught at Boston College, Harvard University, MIT, and the American University in Beirut.

Nouri Gana is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He published numerous articles and chapters on the literatures and cultures of the Arab world and its diasporas in such scholarly venues as Comparative Literature Studies, PMLA, Public Culture and Social Text.