About the Forum
Mediterranean Studies at Stanford University provides a forum for scholars to explore the interplay between societies, cultures, and communities around the Mediterranean Basin from the Middle Ages to the present. Its focus is on all aspects of co-existence and conflict that have marked these encounters in the empires, port cities, nation-states, and transregional and transnational [...]
Forum Highlights
16th Century Ottoman Dreams
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Özgen Felek charts the ascendance of ...
Greece & Turkey Event Series
As part of its Turkish Studies Initiative, the Mediterranean Studies ...
Tracing North African American Diaspora in California
As part of its Maghrebi Studies Initiative, the Mediterranean Studies ...
The Sephardi Studies Project
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
The 19th century Ottoman Levant is depicted in Sa'adi Besalel ...
Sephardi Studies Project
This initiative explores the history and culture of Sephardic Jews ...
Jews and Muslims
The encounters between Jews and Muslims in Turkey, Greece, Morocco, ...
Digitized Ladino Library
Featuring a corpus of printed printed books and rare manuscripts, ...











