Recent News

Davianna Olert, a rising junior in the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, is working on two interdisciplinary projects with international relations professors Şuhnaz Yilmaz and Belgin San-Akca, as well as Ph.D. student Duygu Sever, at Koc University in Istanbul.

The series "Negotiating French, Maghreb-French, & Jewish Identities Through Literature and History," seeking to enhance a new dialogue between different plural voices writing about multiple Jewish identities originating from France and the Maghreb.  

A Q&A with Julia Phillips Cohen & Sarah Abrevaya Stein, on a new documentary history that sheds light on a vibrant culture.   

The Office of International Affair sat down with our Koc Lecture Series speaker Suhnaz Yilmaz for an in depth interview about the Koc Lecture Series. Read here.

Learn more about Stanford's newest Bing Overseas Studies Program in Istanbul, from a January 2014 article featured in the Stanford Report here.

The Mediterranean Studies Forum, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Department of International Relations and the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies will host its annual Koç Lecture Series next week featuring Koç University’s Şuhnaz Yılmaz. The series is a partnership with the Istanbul, Turkey-based university and is aimed at facilitating transatlantic collaboration in the humanities and social sciences.

Former program affiliate Dr. Ozgen Felek's research is featured in Gender News

By Tre’vell Anderson

Kabir Tambar (Department of Anthropology) receives the Institute for Turkish Studies' Publication Subvention Grant for his forthcoming book manuscript, The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Voice and the Demands of History in Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2013).

Joel Beinin and Ramzi Salti broadcast Middle Eastern music and culture on two KZSU radio shows, Arabology and Mediterraneans: Music of the Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond.