Happy Persian new year, Nowruz pirouz, happy Spring equinox 🍀🌷❤️🍀❤️

Please join us for the Oxford-Toronto Webinar with the one-and-only, David Durand-Guédy next Wednesday, 9 April 2025 at 5 pm GMT! Pre-register here: bit.ly/42j47wn

Also for people working with texts that use various languages (such as Persian and Turkic languages, Hebrew and more) with Arabic!

❗️Please update your calendars and join us for this tomorrow, Wed, 9 April at 5 pm GMT/ 6 pm CET/ 12 noon EST. Pre-register here: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

A wonderful opportunity to compare notes and support each other across oceans! Dai MATSUI

Published/Written a new book related to the Middle East (including the Persianate and wider Islamicate world) ? Please submit to the MEM book prize which is accepting nominations now!

A fascinating new Document of the Month shedding new light on Middle Eastern Jews in the Middle Ages ! Read here: bit.ly/DotMApr25

Such a fun read. Brava Sarah!

Prof Nicholas Sims-Williams introduces our #digitalcorpus, which comprises over 1,000 #documents in 13 languages and 9 scripts: bit.ly/IEDCrelease Why not explore the lives of ordinary people living along the #silkroads: invisible-east.org? #digitalhumanities #history

This beautiful Iranian woman's expression of 'fuck your freedom' is the most eloquent and classy I have ever heard I’m in awe 😍

Fascinating paper by Alya Karame on Qur'anic fragments found amongst Firuzkuh Papers !

Sheet from a 1,000-year old Arabic-Persian phrase book hits the headlines in the invisible_east Digital Corpus with its 4th release today!

Excited to see so many @MiddleEast related panels at IMC Leeds this year. Kick off is today!

If you are at IMC_Leeds , join us for the reception in Woodhouse tomorrow at 1-2pm. Just drop in any time drinks, nibbles and a chat!

I am absolutely thrilled about this recognition and grateful to Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford for being such an incredible supporter of our work to showcase the 'little people' with huge voices in medieval Islamicate lands. invisible_east Middle East Medievalists

📢 Book now for the next seminar in 'The Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' series. 📆 17 September, 5pm BST. 🎙️Dilnoza Duturaeva on 'Chinese Documents on the Qarakhanids'. 🔗Register at bit.ly/ChineseDocsQar… #documents #medievalist #history

A reminder that the upcoming IMC_Leeds (July 2026) submission deadline is on 30 September (only for pre-organized panels!). IMC’s 2026 theme is “Temporalities” (imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/). MEM sponsors IMC panels in the field of medieval Islamic history/studies.

Our 6-week hybrid lecture series 'Silk Roads: Empire and Everyday Voices in the Medieval Islamicate East' with colleagues from Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford & University of Oxford starts Monday 13 October! For more information & to book: bit.ly/SilkRoadsLectu… #medievalmonday #silkroads #history

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” Milan Kundera

Join us for this tour through photo archives that document French archaeology in Iran and Afghanistan with the wonderful Martina Massullo !