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شنبه دوم ماه مه در مونترال، کانادا در برنامه نمایشگاه کتاب تهران بدون سانسور؛ رضا فرخفال و مهدی گنجوی در نشستی درباره‌ی میراث جریان ازلی و ادبیات بابی در شکل‌دهی به ادبیات مدرن فارسی به مناسبت انتشار کتاب هیجان‌الوطن اثر فواد کرمانی

4-5 May 2026, @librarycongress workshop on 16c & 17c printing in African, Hebraic, and Middle Eastern languages blogs.loc.gov/international-…

What can one library on Rhodes reveal about Ottoman book culture, manuscript transmission and Greek‑Turkish entanglements? Drawing on codicology, archival work and cultural history, the two volumes of 'Conversations in the Library' illuminate this question uhh.de/csmc-conversat…

According to popular history, when the Crusaders invaded Tripoli in 1109, they burned all the books in the city's famous library. A fragile leaf recently discovered in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul calls this account into question uhh.de/csmc-aom-36

Join MESA on May 4th at 12:00 PM EDT to launch the new Academic Freedom Initiative website — featuring critical data, legal resources, and strategies to fight repression and defend academic freedom on North American campuses. Register for the webinar here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

"The publication of the eight-volume critical edition of the Shāhnāmeh by Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh marks a definitive moment in the history of Persian classical studies." mela.us/2026/04/03/sha…

Colleagues, A book review by Farshad Sonboldel (UC San Diego) on Ferdowsī’s Shāhnāmeh (ed. Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh et al., Mazda Publishers, 2022) has just been published in MELA Notes. To read more, please see: mela.us/2026/04/03/sha…

***NEW JOB POSTING*** Middle Eastern and Islamic Manuscript Cataloger (Specialist III), New York Public Library (NYPL) mela.us/job-postings/

heritagewatch.camelab.net. Learn more about the project in the recent article in “The Art Newspaper”: bit.ly/CAMELCulturalH… For any inquiries, to report a damaged site in the region, or to notify us of an error in the recorded information, please email camel(at)chicago(dot)edu

120 Ottoman era manuscripts in Travnik — former Ottoman capital of Bosnia — have been digitized. Includes mss. in Arabic (mainly), but also Ottoman Turkish & Persian. hmml.org/collections/ne…

An archive commemorating the lives of Palestinian scholars killed in the genocide in Gaza. rememberinggazascholars.org

📚#Research by BRISMES Members | Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter, Archiving #Gaza in the Present brings together voices from #Palestine and beyond to document the cultural erasure and to explore how creative and archival practices resist it. Learn more👇

Tomorrow @SOAS: Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah, and Robert Knox @pashukanist on 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine' (@VersoBooks, 2025). Hosted by Dina Matar and the SOAS Centre for #Palestine Studies.

Apply for the 2026 CEST Summer School, "The Politics of Archives in Turkey and Related Geographies," in Naples, Italy from September 20-28 by April 9! More info: cest-turkey.org/cest-summer-sc…

✨Dr. Hidayet Yavuz Nuhoğlu'nun mimari eserler, mezartaşları, yakın dönem haritacılık tarihi gibi muhtelif konulardaki yüzlerce fotoğraftan oluşan koleksiyonu açık-erişim IRCICA Dijital arşivinde: openaccess.ircica.org

Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity in Palestine Studies at the University of Toronto for the 2026-2027 academic year. Applications are due April 6. The link for the application instructions are coming soon! Please share and apply.

MESA expresses deep concern over the Trump administration's expanded travel bans, creating uncertainty for scholars and students—read full statement: mesana.org/advocacy/lette…

با وجود شرایطی که در آن هستیم—و شاید بهتر بگویم اتفاقاً به دلیل همین شرایط—اهمیت کتاب و گرد هم آمدن به بهانه‌ی کتاب از همیشه بیشتر است. در 17مارچ، «هزارویک کتاب» (زیرمجموعه‌ی نشر آسمانا) با همکاری «باتو» و با حضور بهترین ناشران و کتاب‌فروشان شهر، نمایشگاه کتاب نوروزی برگزار خواهد

📢 Call for applicants! We are delighted to announce the SIMS-CSMC Fellowship, set up with our colleagues at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. It includes time at SIMS in Philadelphia and at CSMC in Hamburg. Apply by 1 May 2026! More info: uhh.de/csmc-sims-fell…

In 2026, the Alliance is offering a catalogue of titles on Palestine (titles published by Palestinian publishing houses and/or about Palestine). This catalogue is based on titles proposed and recommended by Alliance members: alliance-editeurs.org/palestine-cata…