Events

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Past Events

5/6/08
Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad
May 6th at 12:00 pm in the Conference Room of the James West Alumni Center
Established in 1980, the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace celebrates the memory of Bernard Brodie as an eminent scholar and teacher. This annual lecture series provides a special forum for dignitaries and scholars of politics, strategy, warfare, and peace to present their views to the UCLA community and the public. Past presenters include Warren Christopher, Jimmy Carter, Albert Carnesale, William Cohen, William Perry, Michael Dukakis, Paul Kennedy, Thomas Schelling and more.
Burkle Center for International Relations
(310) 206-6365 burkle@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/burkle

4/18/08
USA v. Al-Arian: A Case Study in the Deprivation of Civil Rights”-Flyer
“USA vs Al-Arian” is a disturbing film on freedom of speech in post 9/11 America and political persecution. The film follows the arrest and trial of Sami Al-Arian, an Arab-American university professor accused of supporting a terrorist organization abroad. For two and a half years Dr. Al-Arian was held in solitary confinement, denied basic privileges and given limited access to his attorneys. The film is an intimate family portrait documenting how a tight-knit family unravels before our very eyes as trial preparations, strategy and media spin consume their lives. Norwegian director Line Halvorsen has made a damning portrait of the case focusing on the trial’s emotional toll.
A Panel Discussion following film screening will feature:
Laila Al-Arian, Mr. Al-Arian’s Daughter
Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

4/09/08
Performing Orientalism, Inscribing Whiteness
Wednesday, April 9th | 6:30 PM | Room 2448 at UCLA School of Law
A Panel With:
Ali Behdad, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA
Sara Gualtieri, Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC
John Tehranian, Professor of Law at University of Utah

3/12/08
"The Los Angeles Eight: A 20 Year Struggle for Justice"
Rana Sharif (PHD student in UCLA Women's Studies Department), Khader Hamide (defendant in LA8 case), and
Ahilan T. Arulanantham (Staff attorney -ACLU).
The panel will be moderated by UCLA Critical Race Studies Professor Cheryl Harris.
Wednesday March 12^{th |}Law School Room 1457 | 6:30pm (Dinner will be served)

1/11/08

"Guilty Until Proven Innocent: A Panel Discussion of Civil Rights Abuses Against Muslim Americans and Middle Easterners"-Flyer
Featuring Georgetown Law Professor David Cole
Author of the award winning book “Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror” (New Press, 2007)
& Dr. Layla Al-Marayati, Chairperson, KinderUSA | Dr. Maher Hathout, Senior Advisor, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Moderated by Cheryl I. Harris, UCLA Law Professor
A panel discussion of recent cases impacting constitutional rights and the racialization of Muslims and Middle Easterners, including the “LA 8 Case” the Muslim Charities Cases, and the“unindicted co-conspirators list”
Friday, January 11th, 2008
UCLA Law Building Room 1457
12:00pm to 1:30pm*

11/09/07-11/11/07
NAML/NMLSA 2007 Annual Conference: "Protecting America's Promise"
To register please visit: http://www.namlnet.org/

10/18/07
Studying Modern Middle East History: Trajectories and Challenges
Zachary Lockman is Professor of Middle East Studies and History at New York University, as well as being the current President of the Middle East Studies Association. His research focuses on the socioeconomic, cultural and political history of the modern Middle East, particularly the Mashriq. His publications include: Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (1996); Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies (1993); and Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954, with Joel Beinin (1987).
Thursday, October 18, 2:00 pm | Bunche Hall 6275

10/17/07
"Shari`a law, Islamic State: An Historical Anthropology"
Brinkley Messick is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Columbia University. He teaches graduate courses on such topics as the anthropology of law and the analysis of written culture, and an undergraduate course on "Muslim Societies." He is the author of The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society (California, 1993) and a co-editor of Islamic Legal Interpretation (Harvard, 1996). He currently is at work on a book on the doctrine and court practice of shari`a law in the pre-revolutionary twentieth-century Islamic state of highland Yemen.
Wednesday, October 17, 4:00 pm | Haines Hall 352

10/15/07
"It's Not Either/Or:The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy"
Norman Finkelstein
Formerly: Department of Political Science, DePaul University
Author of: Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and Abuse of History (UC Press, 2005),
The Holocaust Industry: Reflection on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (Verso, 2000), and
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso, 1995, 2003)
Monday, 15 October 2007, 2:00-4:00 p.m. | History Conference Room | 6275 Bunche Hall

10/04/07
Iftar at Professor Abou El Fadl's Home

9/24/07
"Stephen Abraham on Guantanamo Bay Detainees and the Upcoming Supreme Court Cases"
Colonel Abraham is the first military insider to publicly criticize the Guantanamo hearings. He will speak about his experiences in military intelligence and his assignment to a tribunal conducting hearings of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. His affidavit criticizing the hearings is believed to have influenced the Supreme Court’s decision to grant certiorari in Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. U.S.

Sponsored by the American Constitution Society and Cosponsored by the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, Muslim Law Students Association and South Asian Law Students Association

4/07/07
"Know Your Rights" Workshop (MSA College Day)

4/04/07
Communities Under Siege: Immigrant Communities and Democracy Post-9/11--Flyer

4/03/07
Covering Lebanon: Representations of the 2006 War--Flyer
Event Coverage:

2/28/07

"Salah Workshop" with Imam Siraj Wahaj from Masjid Al-Taqwa in Brooklyn, NY.

1/31/07
"Know Your Rights" Workshop--Flyer
Event Coverage:
http://www.dailybruin.com/news/2007/feb/01/workshop-reviews-rights-legal-/

10/05/06
The Guantanamo Bay Teach-In--Flyer

10/02/06
"Ramadan/Yom Kippur Solidarity Fast-A-Thon"--Flyer

4/18/06
"Anti-Muslim Racism?"--Flyer

3/16/06

“Recent Developments in Afghanistan and Challenges to the Judicial System”
Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah
Event Coverage:

3/10/06
Daily Bruin Photo.
"Muhammad: Model for Humanity"
Sheikh Naim Abdul-Wali
Event Coverage:
http://www.dailybruin.com/news/2006/mar/13/event-offers-a-muslim-perspect/

2/21/06
Anti-Muslim Employment Discrimination in Europe: Headscarves in the Workplace--Flyer
Jyette Klausen