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Salim Yaqub, History, “Imperfect strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara

Salim Yaqub will be giving a talk on his new book, Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s, which was published by Cornell University Press in September 2016. In this book Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade in U.S.-Arab relations—a time when Americans and Arabs became an inescapable presence […]

The Politics of Rights and The 1911 Revolution in China, a talk by Xiaowei Zheng

HSSB 3001E 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

The Workshop Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism, and the State (His 291) is pleased to present Xiaowei Zheng, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB, who will speak about her forthcoming book with Stanford University Press, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China.  The appointment […]