Rana Mikati
@rana-mikati.bsky.social
Beiruti, historian, ex-archaeologist
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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)
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.
gizmodo.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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)
An entertaining and enlightening read.
Ever been overwhelmed by remembering how to do your laundry, make inks, *and* keep mice out of the house?
I‘ve got you covered with some fun rhyming recipes!
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I‘ve got you covered with some fun rhyming recipes!
recipes.hypotheses.org/26676
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
An entertaining and enlightening read.
Beirut folks, come if you can
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Beirut folks, come if you can
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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...
www.pennpress.org/978151282887...
September 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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...
www.pennpress.org/978151282887...
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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...
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...
The Noel Prize – PACSCL
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May 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is both lovely and important.
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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...
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...
The Noel Prize – PACSCL
pacscl.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
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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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-...
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-...
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.
anetoday.org
March 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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-...
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-...
Today at noon at noon. Garrett Davidson and I are presenting on our ongoing al-Khanji book.
February 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Today at noon at noon. Garrett Davidson and I are presenting on our ongoing al-Khanji book.
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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...
February 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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...
"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.
المقدسي، احسن التقاسيم في معرفة الاقاليم.
December 8, 2024 at 6:55 PM
"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.
المقدسي، احسن التقاسيم في معرفة الاقاليم.
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Call for Applications
Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources
March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH
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Call for Applications
Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources
March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH
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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
www.ims.forth.gr
November 28, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Call for Applications
Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources
March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH
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Call for Applications
Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources
March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH
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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.
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.
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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November 24, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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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.
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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This is amazing. A Lithuanian researcher, Ernesta Kazakėnaitė, has identified the earliest surviving manuscript in a Sámi language: ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/je...
November 23, 2024 at 8:15 AM
This is amazing. A Lithuanian researcher, Ernesta Kazakėnaitė, has identified the earliest surviving manuscript in a Sámi language: ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/je...
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)
November 22, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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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Here is the link for the free demo as well
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#gamingthepast #historygames #ottoman #digtialhumanities
store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/...
#gamingthepast #historygames #ottoman #digtialhumanities
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...
store.steampowered.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Here is the link for the free demo as well
store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/...
#gamingthepast #historygames #ottoman #digtialhumanities
store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/...
#gamingthepast #historygames #ottoman #digtialhumanities
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Turkey and Pakistan and Indonesia had female heads of government since 90s, that is three decades—and counting—before the US.
November 15, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Turkey and Pakistan and Indonesia had female heads of government since 90s, that is three decades—and counting—before the US.
“Magical” finds in manuscripts in the Garrett collection at the Firestone library.
November 16, 2024 at 2:27 PM
“Magical” finds in manuscripts in the Garrett collection at the Firestone library.
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.
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.
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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November 15, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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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.
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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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)
March 11, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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)
March 8, 2024 at 11:33 PM