Prof & researcher, INALCO & Oxford, history, Middle East & Afghanistan, former UN staffer
Arezou Azad
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Delighted to be speaking at the fantastic Aix-Marseille University about Orientalism, the Silk Roads and Hidden Histories of Afghanistan and the Iranian world on Wednesday 3 June at the kind invitation of Prof Arietta Papaconstantinou and her @European Research Council project team !
A little preview of our forthcoming book!
Looking forward to discussing my dear colleague and friend Yossi Rapoport's new book, Becoming Arab (Princeton, Oxford, 2025): Join us if you are in London on Wed 20 May at 5 pm at Queen Mary University of London: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yossef-rap... @invisibleeast.bsky.social
Arezou Azad
Our Programme Director, @arezouazad.bsky.social, was honoured to deliver the Heshmat Moayyad Lecture at the University of Chicago yesterday.
Arezou presented research from our team, as well as the latest books in The Islamicate East series with @edinburghup.bsky.social. 1/3
A great launch at the home of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for our Programme Director @arezouazad.bsky.social's latest volumes in @edinburghup.bsky.social's Islamicate East series. The assembled guests enjoyed an overview of 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan - Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' 1/2
New on the @edinburghup.bsky.social blog: @arezouazad.bsky.social discusses her latest book with Pejman Firoozbakhsh.
Enjoy a fascinating taster of stories from this translation of the Akhbār-i Barmakiyān in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk's manuscript Ouseley 217: bit.ly/BarmakidsQandA
#Barmakids #Persian
Register now for Monday's virtual launch of @arezouazad.bsky.social's latest titles with Pejman Firoozbakhsh 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids': bit.ly/TorontoBookLaunch
New in The Islamicate East series for @edinburghup.bsky.social
#Bamiyan #Barmakids #Afghanistan
Delighted Invisible East Digital Corpus has won 2025 Digital Humanities award in 1 category! Thanks to all who voted for us. We dedicate this to people of Bamiyan, Ghorband, Panjshir, Firuzkuh, Ghur, Qom area, & other places from which our texts stem @arezouazad.bsky.social @dhawards.bsky.social
New on the blog - Pejman Firoozbakhsh and @arezouazad.bsky.social on the enduring fascination of the Barmakids, and on what this newly translated story cycle has to tell us.
#MedievalSky
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🎉The first 3 books have now published in The Islamicate East series, edited by @arezouazad.bsky.social, Hugh Kennedy and Teresa Bernheimer🎉 @invisibleeast.bsky.social
Find out more at edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-i...
Arezou Azad
Arezou Azad
Invisible East
Invisible East
Invisible East
Invisible East
Arezou Azad
Tales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…
📚 New on the blog!
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Have a read:
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Arezou Azad rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
