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
Office of International Affairs Interviews Suhnaz Yilmaz (Koc University)
The Office of International Affair sat down with our Koc ...
2015 Koç Lecture Series to Host Şuhnaz Yılmaz
The Mediterranean Studies Forum, Center for Russian, East European and ...
Fall 2014 Events
Our events poster is now available online
Stanford Turkish Studies Initiative
Turkish Studies at Stanford
“Turkey has been a crossroads for empires through the ages. ...
BOSP Pilot Program in Istanbul
Stanford Bing Overseas Studies Program is planning to launch a ...
2013-14 Koc Lectures
Stanford University's Mediterranean Studies Forum and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian ...
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, ...