Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
This is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. Introduction: The Affective Engine of the State ‘Recently the slave was … Continue reading The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 1)
Introduction: The Digital Turn in Persian Persian Studies, traditionally grounded in the philological analysis of manuscripts and state archives, is … Continue reading De-Silencing History: From Private Papers to Public Data in the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Project
A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is … Continue reading AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts
Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez: ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z), one of the classical written languages preserved on the African continent, has sustained religious and … Continue reading Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
Each Editor’s Digest at The Digital Orientalist serves as a window into a team’s work and reflections over a given … Continue reading Editor’s Digest March 2026: South Asian Studies (Part 1)
This is a guest post written by Tomasz Sleziak. The author bio is below. Both South Korea and Poland can … Continue reading Education and Preservation of National Consciousness in Polish and Korean Online Repositories
In recent months, I have come to identify as a neo-Luddite or, as a colleague said in jest, “a technophobe … Continue reading Buddhism and AI: Another Look
Introduction The first article of this series explored the general landscape of digital studies on Arabic script in France. The … Continue reading At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future
In my previous essay “Undoing the Canon”, I argued for the urgency of context-sensitive modes of reading Indonesian literature that … Continue reading Bits of Literature: Methodologizing Reading Practices for Indonesian Short Stories
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become ubiquitous in our society, AI functions are more accessible and visible. When you use … Continue reading Loss by Omission: GenAI Summarization Tools and History Knowledge