Living with no running water and limited electricity, Orit Stieglitz spent a year in southern Israel studying the lives of Bedouin women, Muslims who once wandered the Middle East and are now transitioning from a nomadic lifestyle to one that is more urban and stationary. Read more...

A book tour discussion about the history of the Palestinian people and their efforts to gain statehood drew the attention of students, faculty and residents of Los Angeles in the Faculty Center on Thursday. Read more...

Azerbaijan doesn’t deserve this anger Since the end of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan has continued to evolve and better itself, dedicating itself to many significant issues. Read more...

The United States and three European allies submitted a draft of a U.N. resolution Wednesday in opposition to Iran’s nuclear program. But the proposed resolution includes a damaging provision that would prevent Iranian students from studying nuclear physics at foreign universities. Read more...

Peals of laughter burst from Room 6275 in Bunche Hall on Thursday afternoon. “What gives a kid the political courage to say that?” bellowed guest speaker Tariq Ali after narrating a story about a rigged election in which a boy refused to play his bugle for the newly elected president and told the general in charge, “You seem keen on playing the bugle; you can play it yourself.” Ali, an author, filmmaker and historian who has been highly critical of the United States and its policies, kept over 80 UCLA students, faculty and guests laughing and engaged in a lecture called “The Latin American Challenge: Chavez, Morales, Castro.” Ali spent more than two hours discussing Latin American policies, including the turbulent events that have occurred throughout Latin America’s history. Read more...

Police were called to Moore Hall on Thursday night after a student group event was interrupted by protests. Protestors entered an event hosted by L.O.G.I.C., a campus organization devoted to pursuing the ideas of Ayn Rand, to decry the statements of a speaker at the group’s previous event. Read more...

Seismic readings, pollution, terrestrial, underwater ecosystems and urban traffic and air quality may soon be precisely monitored through the use of new technology being researched at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing’s new facility. Read more...