#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Yassıada broşürü: Ekim - 1960" [İstanbul: T. C. Millî Birlik Komitesi İrtibat Bürosu, 1960] dx.doi.org/10.25673/112... #turkey #coup

A new milestone for #MENAdoc: The "Prints" collection now comprises 12,000 digitized historical printed works. Another step toward providing long-term open access to valuable sources for research and teaching. opendata.uni-halle.de/handle/19811... #openaccess #digitalization

It's #WiTMonth. What's new and notable in 2026? And why, this month, we'll have a focus on classic works by women in Arabic. arablit.org/2026/08/03/w...

Women Translation Month: 11 New & Notable Books by Women

August is Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), a month to focus on women’s writing in translation.

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New episode drops tomorrow 📚📚 Onur İnal on “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir” (Cambridge University Press) Stay tuned 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com turkeybooktalk.substack.com

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/david-str... available to view in the Trust library - AIIT.a.3113 - bit.ly/4yRnfRH

David Stronach and British Archaeology in the Middle East

Drawn from interviews conducted between 2007 and 2020, this account of the life of renowned archaeologist and former director of the British Institute of Persia…

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#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Kitāb Mušāhid Urubbā wa-Amīrikā" by Idwār Ilyās [Miṣr: Maṭbaʿat al-Muqtaṭaf, 1900] dx.doi.org/10.25673/100... #travel #arabic #america #europe #history

This new Syriac language learning platform was launched yesterday by @gkiraz.bsky.social with free open access content to get you started! learnsyriac.com #LearnSyriac #languagelearning #startnow

📢 Live in Bucharest at the Congress for Syriac / Christian Arabic Studies. Come to the De Gruyter Brill exhibit for book launches for vols #7 and #8 of Early Arabic Printing in the East (www.degruyterbrill.c...). 🎉📗📘 #ItalianPresses #18thCen #OpenAccess 🗓️ Aug 5 (Wed) @10:00 and @13:00.

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "What happened to the Iraqi Marsh Arabs and their land?: The myth about Garden of Eden and the noble savage" by Hanne Kristine Adriansen [Copenhagen: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, 2004] dx.doi.org/10.25673/104... #iraq #enviroment #war

Available for free download through Aug. 3rd -- Phillip W. Stokes's "The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature," in the Cambridge Elements series. #Classics #AncientBlueSky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature

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#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Liebe als Beruf: al-ʿAbbās Ibn-al-Aḥnaf und das Ġazal" by Susanne Enderwitz [Stuttgart [u.a.]: Steiner in Komm., 1995] dx.doi.org/10.25673/112... #gazal #poetry

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Libya’s turbulent transition : the pressing need for security sector reform" by Barah Mikail [Washington DC : Project on Middle East Democracy, 2013] dx.doi.org/10.25673/107... #libya #security #gaddafiregime #reform #un

This first extensive study of 306 wooden funerary statues from Middle Egypt explores their archaeological contexts and ritual functions. An open-access catalogue offers new insights into burial customs of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom. www.harrassowitz-ver...

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Fiscal policy for growth and development in Tajikistan" by Martin Brownbridge & Sudharshan Canagarajah [Washington, DC: World Bank, 2008] dx.doi.org/10.25673/104... #tajikistan #economy #poverty #politics #financialmanagement #debt

Iran is home to one of the largest Middle Eastern Jewish communities outside of Israel, numbering around 10,000 people today. Jewish Iran by Daniel Amir explores the 20th C history of Iranian Jews as they grappled with global political movements & Iranian national identity https://ow.ly/B52E50ZtB2W

*Stellenausschreibung* Das @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter*in (50 %, unbefristet) für Digital Humanities & #Forschungsdatenmanagement im neuen Projekt ZETRA. Bewerbungsschluss: 23. August 2026 www.ifz-muenchen.de/das-institut... #digitalhumanities

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "al- Muġnī" by ʿAbdallāh Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Qudāma al-Maqdisī & ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmān Ibn-Muḥammad Ibn-Qudāma [Miṣr: Maṭbaʿat al-Manār, 1923-1922] dx.doi.org/10.25673/100... #islamiclaw #hanbali

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Die syrische Jakobosanaphora nach der Rezension des Jaʿqôb(h) von Edessa" von Adolf Rücker [Münster in Westf. : Aschendorff, 1923] dx.doi.org/10.25673/32015 #JakobvonEdessa #Anaphora #Syrisch-OrthodoxeKirche

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Kazakhstan and the South Caucasus corridor in the wake of the Georgia-Russia War" by Nargis Kassenova [Madrid: FRIDE, 2009] dx.doi.org/10.25673/103... #kazakhstan #caucasus #georgia #russia #war

The Netherlands Institute in Turkey has an upcoming NIT Masterclass “Connecting Constantinople: The City and the World in Objects.” The masterclass will take place from 25–27 October 2026, with applications open until 9 September 2026. www.nit-istanbul.org/education/co...

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Challenging repression: human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa" by Amnesty International [London: Amnesty International, 2008] dx.doi.org/10.25673/103... #middleeast #northafrica #humanrights #repression #conflict

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "The intermediate worlds of angels: Islamic representations of celestial beings in transcultural contexts" by Sara Kuehn, Stefan Leder & Hans-Peter Pökel [Beiruter Texte und Studien; Band 114] dx.doi.org/10.25673/109... #theology #islam #angel

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Muqaddimat Ibn-H̱aldūn : Prolégomènes d'Ebn-Khaldoun" by ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmān Ibn-Muḥammad Ibn-Ḫaldūn [Paris : Typographie de Firmin Didot, 1858] dx.doi.org/10.25673/97751 #french #OpenAccess #history #IbnKhaldun

In dieser Studie widmet sich Jan-Malte Ziegenbein dem Korpus koptischer Miniaturkodizes, die auf das 4.–8. Jh. n. Chr. datiert werden können. Er wertet diese u.a. hinsichtlich inhaltlicher, materieller und paläographischer Merkmale aus. www.harrassowitz-ver...

#CfA Studentische oder wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am #DHIP 📍10 Std./Woche | ab dem 1. September 2026 | Paris 📚 Recherchen, Korrekturen & Einblicke in die Arbeit eines Forschungsinstituts 📅 Bewerbungsschluss: 17. August 2026 🔗 Online-Bewerbung: karriere.maxwebersti...

📜 Call for Papers: Writing Shiʿism — Manuscripts and Archives from the Medieval to the Early Modern Periods 📝 Abstract: up to 300 words 📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026 📩 Submit to: [z.a.azhar@hum.leidenuniv.nl](mailto:z.a.azhar@hum.leidenuniv.nl)

📢 Call for Applications The Oman Research Grant for visiting research fellowships of three months at ZMO, Berlin, in fields related to Omani studies. The grant is funded by Deutsche Oman-Stiftung (German Oman Foundation). Application deadline: 10 September 2026. Full call: www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Ka...

Yesterday I was informed of the shocking news that Professor Harry Stroomer has unexpectedly passed away. He was emeritus professor of Afro-Asiatic linguistics at Leiden, and one the founding figures of Amazigh studies in Leiden. A short thread on what I'll remember him for.

On 2 October 2026, the #symposium “The Dede Korkut Epic in the Context of the Cultural Heritage of #Turkic Peoples and World Epics” will take place at #SLUB #Dresden, featuring international talks and the Dede Korkut manuscript. Register by 6 September 2026 at veranstaltungen@slub-dresden.de