📢Call for #migration scholars from abroad! We're offering Visiting Fellowships for both senior and junior researchers eager to collaborate with our network for 2-3 months. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity! Deadline: 15.10. 2023 👉tinyurl.com/3pwkbc4k

TARII Heritage Grants These projects should focus on preserving either the tangible or intangible heritage of Iraq, with the proposed phase of the project to be completed within one year. The Expression of Interest should be submitted by 1 October 2023. tarii.org/heritage-grants

Open Access Monograph Series: Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures ift.tt/9bdzBLa

Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…

🤔 I wonder, how did teachers (šeš.gal or um.mi.a) rate their students? “School texts can also contain the cross-shaped signs BAD or NU 𒉡 to indicate an error made by a learner pupil” - precursor of our ❌ (From the “Oxford Handbook of the Cuneiform Culture”)

Call for Applications are closing soon to Sharjah Archaeology Authority First International Training Course on “Rock Art Recording Techniques, from Traditional to Digital”, from 10-14 December 2023 in Sharjah, UAE. saa.shj.ae/en/training-co…

WANTED: A research assistant for a (yet to be announced) project mapping the illicit antiquities trade. Paid, part time, remote over the next few months (at least). Candidates have strong writing, attention to detail, provenance research. Contact: [email protected]

Delighted to announce the completion of our ethnographic film, as part of our Endangered Material Knowledge Programme felt project. The film is an effort to demonstrate & appreciate the endangered craft of felt-making by the few remaining felt-makers in Sinjar & Kifri. Huge thanks to the incredible team!

Assyriology student with an interest in Digital Humanities? Join us in Copenhagen for the 3rd Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School, 12–16 August 2024. Application deadline: 31 March! More info here: ccrs.ku.dk/education/amen…

From the land of the first letter of writing, Uruk. A library opens for writers, writers, artists, and musicians, Samawah Central Library.

The restoration of the Abbasid arch in Mosul province has been completed. #HeritageofIraq

My latest for The New Region on Shanidar, a cave with universal value. Kudos to all those who contributed to this over the past few days 🙏🏼