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Rana Mikati

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Beiruti, historian, ex-archaeologist

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history. Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
Photo of a blue lapis lazuli cylinder seal that is broken, shown from two sides. On the left it looks almost complete, like a cylinder that has a chip at the bottom left. Part of a cuneiform inscription is visible on the left side. On the right of the image is the other side which is more broken, just a fragment. Part of the image of a person is visible.
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Calum Cockburn @ccockburn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.
A screenshot of a search input in the British Library's interim Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.
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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Researchers used archaeological & historical records,topographic maps & satellite imagery to create Itiner-e,a new high-resolution digital dataset & map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 AD. It charts 185,896 miles (299,171 km) of roads across almost 1,544,409 square miles (4,000,000 square km)
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The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It's Mind-Blowing
A new study identified over 68,000 more miles of ancient Roman roads than were previously known.
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
An entertaining and enlightening read.
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Beirut folks, come if you can
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Dr Matthew L Keegan @drkeegan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
My first monograph "Before World Literature" will be released by the University of Pennsylvania Press in March 2026. I hope it will be of interest to folks in comparative literature, Islamic studies, and classical Arabic literature. www.pennpress.org/978151282887...
Cover image of the book "Before World Literature" by Matthew L. Keegan.
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is both lovely and important.
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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Please boost! The NOEL PRIZE, in memory of the great and good and much-missed Will Noel. Celebrate your (or any) open access library project. No project too small, or too big. Full details here, deadline 8/1, extremely low-effort Google Form: pacscl.org/what-we-do/f...
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The Noel Prize – PACSCL
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ancient Assyrian kings didn’t just go to war with other kings. They battled queens of the Arabian peninsula, including the formidable Queen Samsi who may even be depicted on a lost stone relief mid-battle on the back of a camel. Fascinating piece by Ellie Bennet anetoday.org/samsi-queen-...
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Samsi, “Queen of the Arabs”, and Her Fight Against Assyria - The Ancient Near East Today
The women referred to in Assyrian inscriptions as “Queen of the Arabs” have been a passing footnote in Neo-Assyrian history — until now. Here is the story of one of them.
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Today at noon at noon. Garrett Davidson and I are presenting on our ongoing al-Khanji book.
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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us this coming Monday at #IAIS to discuss Vernon Schubel’s new work with him - the registration link is here: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"اقليم الشام … ديار النبيين ومركز الصالحين ومعدن البدلاء ومطلب الفضلاء به القبلة الاولى وموضع الحشر والمسرى والارض المقدسة والرباطات الفاضلة والثغور الجليلة والجبال الشريفة." المقدسي، احسن التقاسيم في معرفة الاقاليم.
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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Please share: Call for Applications Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH www.ims.forth.gr/en/news-item...
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Call for Applications - Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources"
Call for ApplicationsWinter SchoolReading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources March 17-25, 2025 Rethymno (Greece), Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
www.ias.edu/ideas/window... A write-up by Garrett Davidson, Sabine Schmidtke and myself explaining how the project we are working on came about. Might be of interest to Islamic manuscripts people.
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A Window into Early Twentieth-Century Arabic Manuscripts Transactions
On Tuesday, September 17, 2024, a team of librarians from the American University in Cairo (AUC) arrived at the al-Khanji Bookstore in downtown Cairo to oversee the transfer of a rare archive document...
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is amazing. A Lithuanian researcher, Ernesta Kazakėnaitė, has identified the earliest surviving manuscript in a Sámi language: ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/je...
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Fellow historians , #warfare folks - whether #lateantique or #medieval- are there out there articles/books that deal with the different values and characteristics attributed to various weapons (sword/javelin, etc)
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Tyler Kynn @seyahatgame.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Here is the link for the free demo as well store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/... #gamingthepast #historygames #ottoman #digtialhumanities
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Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca on Steam
Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca is a unique free-to-play 2D RPG which is designed as an educational tool to help players and students to engage with the cultural history of the seventeenth-century Ottoman...
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Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Turkey and Pakistan and Indonesia had female heads of government since 90s, that is three decades—and counting—before the US.
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“Magical” finds in manuscripts in the Garrett collection at the Firestone library.
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
www.aucegypt.edu/news/auc-lib... Colleagues at AUC, IAS, NYU, Princeton, Umich, and cofc came together to make this happen. Proud of their work and of my husband Garrett Davidson who made it happen.
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AUC Library Acquires Rare Archive with U.S. Institutions | The American University in Cairo
AUC’s Libraries and Learning Technologies is collaborating with five leading U.S. academic institutions — Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, New York University, University of Michiga...
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
A fragment of a manuscript on the benefits of Ramaḍān (مكتوب في فضائل شهر رمضان), in the collection of Aboubacar Ben Said Library, Timbuktu, Mali. (SAV ABS 02832: vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/153971)
A fragment of a manuscript on the benefits of Ramaḍān.
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Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
My book on early Islamic Beirut is out brill.com/display/titl...
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