About the Forum
Mediterranean Studies at Stanford University provides a forum to explore the interplay between societies, cultures, and communities around the Mediterranean Basin from the Middle Ages to the present. Affiliated faculty focus on all aspects of co-existence and conflict that have marked these encounters in the empires, port cities, nation-states, and transregional/transnational contexts of the Levant, [...]
Forum Highlights
KZSU Radio Shows: Arabology and Mediterraneans
Joel Beinin and Ramzi Salti broadcast Middle Eastern music and ...
Aron Rodrigue is named a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
The Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms) is ...
Spring 2013 Events
A critical focus on Turkey, Egypt, Maghreb, Ottoman Empire, Byzantine, ...
Stanford Turkish Studies Initiative
Turkish Studies at Stanford
“Turkey has been a crossroads for empires through the ages. ...
2013-14 Koc Lectures
Stanford University's Mediterranean Studies Forum and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian ...
Poster Exhibit: 2012 Istanbul Overseas Seminar
Fifteen Stanford undergraduates students traveled to Istanbul, Turkey as part ...
The Sephardi Studies Project
Sephardi Studies Project
This initiative explores the history and culture of Sephardic Jews ...
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
The 19th century Ottoman Levant is depicted in Sa'adi Besalel ...
Digitized Ladino Library
Featuring a corpus of printed printed books and rare manuscripts, ...
