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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

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Digital Library

Browse photos and lectures online.

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. 

Ottoman Map Routes

Mapping Ottoman Epirus

Constantinople

Sephardi Studies

Events

April
10
Date
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123

This talk will concentrate on the history of Ottoman women's imprisonment policies and practices during the late 19th

April
16
Date
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123

In recent years, disruptions to the flow of maritime traffic—most notably the Ever Given debacle of spring 2021…

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.