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 Damian Mandzunowski. The author bio is below. The premise behind this piece is simple: … Continue reading Digital Curatorship, Handling Special Collections, and Lessons Learned from My Pursuit of Historical Photographs of People Reading in China
Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital … Continue reading Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
The DH Awards include a category for “Exploration of DH Failure/Limitations”. During the DH Awards of 2025, the category did … Continue reading ERROR 404: Failure Not Found
Introduction In my previous work exploring the first volume of Künhü’l-Ahbar, Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’s work on history and geography from … Continue reading From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
Introduction Many of the fields of study here on The Digital Orientalist rely heavily on images hosted online. In textual … Continue reading Running IIIF Locally: A Simple Setup Guide
This is a guest post by Mona Hassan Ahmed Sawy. Over the past decade, Coptic studies, in all its branches—language, … Continue reading Digital Coptic Studies: Where Do We Stand—and Where Do We Go Next?
This post is the second part of a conversation between Ephrem A. Ishac and David Michaelson on the state of … Continue reading Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (2)
Between October and November 2025, Prof. David Michelson served as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) … Continue reading Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (1)
In my first Editor’s Digest in December 2024, I summarised the posts of the Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies team published between … Continue reading Editor’s Digest April 2026: Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies
This is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. This post is the second of a two-part series. The first … Continue reading The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 2)