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Featured Event
UCSB Middle East Ensemble Winter Concert
Saturday, Mar. 7 | 7:30 PM | Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Quarterly Concert
Experience a tapestry of cultures through this formal concert given by the UCSB Middle East Ensemble, under the direction of Scott Marcus. The concert will include guest singers and dancers, ensuring a beautiful and entertaining evening.
Point of Pride
CMES Director Sherene Seikaly Received Fellowship
CMES Director Sherene Seikaly (History) has received a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will be working on her book From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine that charts the trajectory of her great-grandfather Naim Cotran (c. 1877-1961) from nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon. The book places the question of Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession.