Dear all,

Sorry for cross-posting. Tomorrow, BL and QNL are holding an online event on "Towards Conscientious Bilingual Description on the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership", presented by Curstaidh Reid and David Woodbridge, that might be of interest to some of us on this list. Details can be found at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arlis-cat-class-ethics-series-bl-qatar-foundation-partnership-registration-320497254917?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

All the best,

Till

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Till Grallert, PhD

Scholarly Makerspace
DFG-project "Future e-Research Support in the Humanities"
Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
phone: +49 (0)30-2093-99281

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
SIHAFA: The Ideosphere of the late Ottoman Arabic press: Mapping the discursive field of authors and texts through computational approaches
Universität Hamburg

Projects: Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut, Open Arabic Periodical Editions, Project Jarāʾid: A Chronology of Nineteenth Century Arabic Periodicals

Latest publications: 
- ‘Catch Me If You Can! Approaching the Arabic Press of the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean through Digital History’. Geschichte und Gesellschaft 47, no. 1 (2021): 58–89. https://doi.org/10/gkhrjr (open access).
- ‘Urban Food Riots in Late Ottoman Bilād Al-Shām as a “Repertoire of Contention”’. In Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The ‘Dangerous Classes’ since 1800, edited by Stephanie Cronin, 157–76. London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838605902.ch-010.