11248 Bunche Hall Box 951487 Los Angeles, California 90095-1487 phone: 310-825-4811 fax: 310-206-3555 Dear Colleagues, Professor Gabriel Piterberg, History, has stepped down as Director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Gabi for his capable leadership of CNES since 2013. Under his leadership, the Center has continued to encourage, coordinate and integrate 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 and has fostered public education programs and research projects of interest to the academic and professional communities and to the broader public in metropolitan Los Angeles and throughout Southern California. Thank you Gabi for your leadership of the Center! We are pleased to announce that the new permanent Director of CNES, effective winter quarter 2016, will be Aslı Bâli, Associate Professor in the Law School. Aslı joined UCLA from the Yale Law School where she was the Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow in Law, and coordinator of the Middle East Legal Forum. She is also a graduate of the Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an articles editor of the Yale Journal of Human Rights & Development. Her Ph.D. is in Political Science is from Princeton University, where her dissertation concerned the challenge of enforcement in the nuclear non-proliferation regime. After law school, she worked for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in the New York and Paris offices. Her current research interests focus on public international law, arms control, human rights and international humanitarian law. She also has a strong interest in the comparative law of the Middle East. In the meantime, James Gelvin, Professor of History, and Susan Slyomovics, Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, will serve as Interim Co-Directors. Jim focuses on social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, particularly of Greater Syria (the area of present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among his honors, he received the Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association in 2006 for The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War. Susan studies gender, human rights, folklore and material culture, visual anthropology, and the Middle East and North Africa. Among her honors, Susan received the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association, Distinguished Senior Scholar Award in 2014. We are fortunate that Jim and Susan are taking on the interim co-directorship. CNES Announcement Page 2 Please join us in thanking Professor Gabriel Piterberg for his dedicated service and in welcoming Professors Aslı Bâli, James Gelvin and Susan Slyomovics to the International Institute in their leadership roles at the Center for Near Eastern Studies! Sincerely, C. Cindy Fan Interim Vice Provost of International Studies International Institute Christopher L. Erickson Senior Associate Vice Provost of International Studies Director, International Institute
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