Digital Coptic Studies: Where Do We Stand—and Where Do We Go Next?
This is a guest post by Mona Hassan Ahmed Sawy. Over the past decade, Coptic studies, in all its branches—language,…
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Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (2)
This post is the second part of a conversation between Ephrem A. Ishac and David Michaelson on the state of…
Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (1)
Between October and November 2025, Prof. David Michelson served as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO)…
The Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection: An Introduction and its Potential Applications
This article was written by Contributor for Northeast Asian Studies, Brian Tsz Ho Wong, and Guest Contributor, Curtis Sai Hung…
Editor’s Digest April 2026: Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies
In my first Editor’s Digest in December 2024, I summarised the posts of the Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies team published between…
The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 2)
This is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. This post is the second of a two-part series. The first…
The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. Introduction: The Affective Engine of the State ‘Recently the slave was…
De-Silencing History: From Private Papers to Public Data in the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Project
This is a post by Zhaleh Nayebossadrian | Sapienza University of Rome Introduction: The Digital Turn in Persian Persian Studies,…
AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts
A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is…
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Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez: ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z), one of the classical written languages preserved on the African continent, has sustained religious and…