As rain poured outside Monday evening, students, faculty and community members gathered in a small classroom in Dwinelle Hall for UCSB associate professor of history Sherene Seikaly’s lecture ...

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Mark Twain once said—and nowhere does it feel more apt than today, as recent upheavals in South Asia echo the Arab Spring that shook North Africa ...

Nine years ago this month, residents of the small Syrian town of Douma were in full rebellion against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Throughout the preceding year, Assad had watched as popular ...