The aim of this network is to provide researchers with information about publications and congresses regarding the mediterranean area in modern and contemporary history. We strive to be a discussion space for researchers coming from different research fields. Instead of only promoting discussions about each single country, or only discussing the concept of mediterranean history, the aim is to facilitate circulation and confrontation of ideas, methods, and theories.

- To attend in Florence: Matters of Weight  Tim Urban <Urban@khi.fi.it> - To attend in Paris: Arab Revolutions and teh Orient Journey  Nora Lafi <lafinora@CMS.HU-BERLIN.DE> - Call for Papers: Journal of Levantine Studies  Nathalie Alyon <Nathaliea@vanleer.org.il> - Today in Budapest: Workshop Cross-Confessional Diplomacy and Diplomatic Mediators in the Early Modern Mediterranean World  Maartje van Gelder <M.vanGelder@uva.nl> - Postdoctoral grant at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut  Tim Urban <Urban@khi.fi.it> - Netherlands Turkey 400 year Relations: Exhibition, Publication and Lecture  Mehmet Tutuncu <m.tutuncu@quicknet.nl> - To attend in Prato: Postal History  Nora Lafi <lafinora@CMS.HU-BERLIN.DE>

Reviewer: Yucel Terzibasoglu Title: The Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia (ca. 1681): Defter-i Mufassal-i Eyalet-i Kamanice Author: Dariusz Kolodziejczyk Ostapchuk, Foreword by Victor   Reviewer: Vincent Guigueno Title: L'administration generale des phares de l'Empire ottoman et la societe Collas et Michel, 1860-1960 Author: Jacques Thobie   Reviewer: Samuel Pierce Title: Modern Spain: A Documentary History Author: John Cowans, ed.