A little preview of our forthcoming book!

This document features in the latest launch on our digital corpus - as well as in November's Document of the Month, 'A History of Two Iranian Festivals: Nawrūz and Sada' by Simone Cristoforetti: bit.ly/NawruzandSada. #digitalhumanities #medievalsky #BamiyanPapers #NewPersian

I am absolutely thrilled about this recognition and grateful to @OxLifelongLearn for being such an incredible supporter of our work to showcase the 'little people' with huge voices in medieval Islamicate lands. @invisibleeast.bsky.social @mideastmedieval.bsky.social

#Teachers! We're developing a schools programme, based on our research, aimed at 11-18 year-olds, and would love your input! Do you teach #silkroads, the #middleeast, or want help adding more diverse topics to your #curriculum? Take & share our survey: forms.office.com/e/bV8bQW63wd #history #edusky

Hugely proud of invisibleeast.bsky.social and grateful to @oxfordlifelonglearning.bsky.social for nominating us for Academic Excellence OLLIE award! Each team member made a unique contribution but today I single out programme manager Hayley Smith (in pic) for her enthusiasm & professionalism !

So true @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social ! Do pick one up at the EUP stand if you haven't already, @imc-leeds.bsky.social goers!

Fantastic event at sides of 'Treasured' exhibition on heritage challenges for scholars, hosted @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social under stewardship of @richove.bsky.social, @wetpaint63.bsky.social with panel: Xa Sturgis, Silke Ackermann, Maja Kominko, Ahmad Mohammed, Nabi Saqee. Photo: Matthew Weait

It's a beautiful Spring day in #Oxford & we wish our followers a happy Naw Rūz/Nowruz! Nabi Saqee writes on references to #Nowruz in the #Bamiyan Papers, as well as special Nowruz traditions in #Afghanistan, in our blog: bit.ly/IENowruz #persiannewyear #digitalcorpus #documents #medievalsky

Happy Persian new year, happy nowruz, happy Spring equinox! 🍀🌷🍀🌷

Our very own Mateen Arghandehpour on BBC 4's In Our Time this Thursday 13 March at 9 am UK time to talk about Cyrus the Great! Tune in here: buff.ly/jsH4kRd

I enjoyed writing about Maryam ... 🌷

New jobs out: a postdoc & PhD on Persianate manuscripts and Afghanistan studies . Check them out! @invisibleeast.bsky.social

Nearly 300 new documents uploaded on our IEDC portal today - check them out! invisible-east.org

🎉 #meettheteam who have been reading, transcribing and translating documents written in #Persian! We took a moment today to celebrate their incredible achievements 💪 📅 Tomorrow sees the third release of 270 more #documents on our #digitalcorpus. 🔍 Explore now at www.invisible-east.org #skystorians

Great to be at the Department for Continuing Education @ox.ac.uk today for our team meeting. Might have spotted some patches of blue sky in Oxford this morning! #springiscoming

‼️Fancy doing #Afghanistan-related research in beautiful Paris? 2 new job opps for PhD scholarships (Persian pre-modern mss) post-docs (open field). Historical #Khurasan included! bit.ly/42Mh9EB & bit.ly/3CAD86B. Deadlines: Mar & Apr 25 @Inalco @invisible_east

January is here, and here in Oxford that means endless grey skies and rainy days… It's not always easy to see the bright side, but this medieval poem written across four of the Bamiyan Papers (bit.ly/Panegyricpoem) might help inspire a new positive attitude to our gloomy weather on #blueMonday 🧵

#meettheteam 👋 who have been working hard digitising #documents ready for the second release onto our Digital Corpus tomorrow. Give a 👏 to Edward Shawe-Taylor and Mateen Arghandehpour and mark your calendar 📅 ready to explore 800 new documents! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities #skystorians

Delighted to share our #Document of the Month - bit.ly/DocofMonthJan25 - a fascinating exploration by @eds-t.bsky.social of an early calligraphic signature! Find this - and 800 brand new treasures - in the second release on our Digital Corpus today 🎉 #digitalhumanities #medievalsky #skystorians

Check out the Invisible East Document of the Month! This month is a piece I wrote about an interesting calligraphic signature on a 12th-century Persian document. This blog has been adapted from an article I've been working on for a forthcoming Invisible East publication.

📢The second release of an additional 800 #documents is now live on our #digitalcorpus! 🔎Need some help unlocking these treasures? Join us for a walk through how to search the #IEDC at bit.ly/IEDChowto #digitalhumanities #medievalsky #sykstorians

An honour & inspiration to be at #INALCO today, to discuss with colleagues the complicated nexus between heritage protection & historical, textual & linguistic research in conflict societies, with diaspora communities & other groups in #Armenia, #Iran, #Afghanistan, and Central Asia. #skystorians

🌟 The dust has settled from the holiday season, and many of us are back to work after spending some quality time with loved ones. As we all know, family reunions rarely go without a bit of argy-bargy... 🧵 1/10

📣 Hear from Dr Roxana Zenhari in the next in the 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' series, convened by @arezouazad.bsky.social & Mohamad Tavakoli. 🗓️ This Thursday, 12pm EST/5pm GMT. 🔗 Registration essential: bit.ly/Rethinking_History #archives #documents #history

Join us for this talk on lithographs as documents! @invisibleeast.bsky.social @mideastmedieval.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Happy yalda night. Yalda marks the shortest day and longest night of the year in Iranian and Persian culture, and celebrates longer days ahead. Pomegranates and many other lovely things are had!