CU Boulder Mediterranean Studies Group fosters study of Western history as a process involving Islamic, Christian and Jewish societies and cultures Scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder are ...

Know’st thou the land where the lemon trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle ...

The Maghreb, where the Sahara meets the Mediterranean, has always been more than a borderland. With its strategic location near Europe and climate suited for settlement, it has served as a key passage ...

The Maghreb—spanning the Sahara’s edge and the Mediterranean’s vast environmental zone—has long served as a geographic crossroads. With its proximity to Europe and a climate fostering cultural ...

Europe is often thought of today as a center of cultural and technological advancement. Brian Catlos would tell you that such important advancements actually began centuries ago in the Mediterranean ...

A new book, co-edited by Barbara Faedda, focuses on this strategic Mediterranean port city.

Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque Mediterranean island long before they began farming on mainland Europe. If true, the 8,500-year-old ...

Sailing into the stony harbor of the island of Malta, surrounded by ramparts and turrets, you realize that this strategic and much fought-over rock midway between Sicily and Africa has had a long and ...

Lattakia, SANA- Lattakia city, located on the Syrian coast overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, is a city with a rich history, as some sources indicate that its roots date back to the Bronze Age, ...

Malta, a captivating archipelago nestled in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, boasts a history as deep and multifaceted as the cerulean waters that embrace its shores. This island country, ...