Exploring the Mediterranean from the Middle Ages to the present
Exploring the Mediterranean from the Middle Ages to the present
Our faculty and students explore all aspects of co-existence and conflict that have marked the cultures and societies of the Levant, Anatolia, the Balkans, Southern Europe, and North Africa.
Our Initiatives
Ottoman and Turkey Encounters at Stanford
An intellectual forum housing several series of events that foster critical engagements with contemporary Turkey and the Ottoman world, namely Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa during the Ottoman centuries.
Events
Date
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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Why do some religious minorities, lacking any significant power and presenting no imminent threat, provoke the ire of popular groups and become…
Date
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Encina Hall
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Reuben Hills, Encina Hall East, 2nd floor
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Reuben Hills, Encina Hall East, 2nd floor
In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of…
News
September 3, 2021
This academic year, the Abbasi Program is pleased to announce the broad theme for its events and programming as they relate to frameworks of collective belonging, cultural construction, identity and heritage formation.