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Sep 01, 2023 I humbled and honoured to have been invited to deliver the closing keynote at the joint MEC and TEI conference “Encoding Cultures” in Paderborn next Friday.
Aug 30, 2023 I just signed a new contract and will be leading a new Methods Innovation Lab at HU Berlin as part of NFDI 4Memory. This also means that, sadly, I did return the funds from my MSCA fellowship at University of Hamburg.
May 10, 2023 I will participate in the conference “Digital History 2023” in Berlin with a paper titled “Looking at the iceberg from below the waterline. Stylometric authorship attribution for anonymous articles in Arabic periodicals from the early twentieth century”.
Mar 01, 2023 I will participate in the upcoming DHd2023 in Trier as a panelist for two panel discussions: “Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots”, organised by the empowerment working group and “Opening Sources – modulare Wege zur Quellenbereitstellung und -edition” organised by the working group digital humanities of the Max Weber Stiftung.
Oct 10, 2022 Nadja Danilenko interviewed me for her podcast “tell me a history - Erzähl mir eine Geschichte” and I spoke about early Arabic periodicals and digital humanities.
Sep 23, 2022 I will be part of a fantastic panel on “Building Digital Humanities Networks & Training” at the “Building Digital Humanities” online conference to take place on 14 November 2022.
Feb 15, 2022 As of today, I have commenced a new job to establish a prototypical scholarly makerspace at the central university library of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Feb 03, 2022 [CFP] Panel at DOT 2022 "Computational contributions to the Social and Cultural History of the Islamicate World"
Apr 02, 2021 My time at the Orient-Institut Beirut will come to an end on April 10. Stay tuned for the exciting things to come.