The UCLA Center for Near East Studies is an academic institute at the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

. The Center "encourages, coordinates and integrates instruction and research in the humanities and the social sciences, business, law, medicine and the media, and in all languages essential to an understanding of the Near East."
The Center drew wide attention for sponsoring a Jan 31, 2009 symposium on “Human Rights and Gaza” at which a few members of the audience — but not the speakers on the panel — chanted “Zionism is Nazism.”

Faculty

• full list at http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/people/faculty.asp

• Sondra Hale
  Sondra Hale
  Sondra Hale is Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles ; former Co-editor of The and former Co-Chair, Islamic Studies.-Life:...
  
  
• Gabriel Piterberg
• Susan Slyomovics
• Saree Makdisi
  Saree Makdisi
  Saree Makdisi is an American literary critic of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, specializing in eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature. He also writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture. Makdisi currently holds the title of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at...
  
  
• Khaled Abou El Fadl