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Featured Event
Monday, April 21, 2025 | 5:00 PM | MultiCultural Center
Experience the Cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia at UCSB’s Annual Bazaar!Join the UCSB MultiCultural Center (MCC) and the Educational Opportunity Program’s Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian Resource Center (MENASARC) for an evening of vibrant cultural celebration at this year’s Bazaar!This year’s Bazaar proudly spotlights National Arab American Heritage Month while also honoring the first month of the Iranian New Year — continuing the tradition of celebrating the diversity, creativity, and heritage of UCSB’s MENASARC communities.
All are welcome to attend — come celebrate, connect, and experience the magic of MENASA culture!
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.