Arezou Azad

Peacekeeper turned historian of medieval Middle East/Central Asia; founder & director @invisible_east

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

Delighted to be speaking at 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 @ERC_Research project team !

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

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

[GlobalLIT @balaghas]

We're proud to publish Anna Learn's excellent and in-depth review of a new anthology of Afghan women poems: Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets, published by @TwoLinesPress
https://t.co/c3Fg8nbf7u

[MESA @MESA_1966]

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[miche-quiche @LMichk]

En accès libre
https://t.co/ea7Nr9HTUs

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

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: https://t.co/SzzsHBOsYm @invisible_east East

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

Wow great to see this volume from a scholar who has worked long and hard on this topic

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

This coming Monday, 27 April at 12 noon EST/5 pm UK time/ 6 pm CET, I will be giving a preview of Pejman Firoozbakhsh's and my two new books. We will be joined by Mahmoud Omidsalar of the Jordan Center for Persian Studies at UC Irvine as discussant.

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[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

❗ Hot off the press: short video on new book by Pejman Firoozbakhsh & myself on Rise and Fall of the Barmakids. A translation of 70 delightful stories about the Barmakids found in a forgotten manuscript held at the The Bodleian ed at @bodleianlibs : https://t.co/E8uOyrpCri.

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

We are looking forward to hosting Marton Ver who is talking on old Uyghur documents very soon at 6 pm CET today. Register and join us! https://t.co/XG1wdtZoZx

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

Beautiful

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

🇮🇷 The beautiful melodies of handpan artist Erfan Farahdoost in northern Iran, February 13, 2026.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“Diplomacy is not reality TV. The world is not a casino. Statecraft is not a real estate deal.”

@UNReliefChief @TFletcher tells me that as the war with Iran continues to escalate, “We’ll be paying for this war for years to come…

“We’re deeply frustrated… that’s diplomatic speak for saying we’re furious. Because rich people are winning out of this. The arms dealers are winning… And the people I serve are losing.”

[invisible_east @invisible_east]

Join us on Tuesday 3 March @OxLifelongLearn to launch new books in the Edinburgh University Press series The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History, with @ArezouAzad and an expert panel.

Tickets: https://t.co/CByZ1vOQwj

#booklaunch #bamiyan #barmakids #history

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

Wonderful Document of the Month by Alisher Begmatov!

[invisible_east @invisible_east]

In the spring of 1932 a shepherd fortuitously discovered a wicker basket containing a manuscript at Mount Mugh, Tajikistan... Read more at https://t.co/f8RmhiOYiS where Alisher Begmatov explores a commercial letter in our 'Document of the Month'.

#medievalist #documents #history

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

New fascinating document of the month on a fragmentary and delightful Judeo-Persian letter from the 11th-12th century Bamiyan papers by @RubenNiko1

[invisible_east @invisible_east]

Our #digitalcorpus contains 286 medieval #documents from the Bamiyan Papers, which originate in Afghanistan. 23 feature #JudeoPersian in #Hebrewscript.

The latest 'Document of the Month', by Ruben S. Nikoghosyan, explores one of these documents: https://t.co/7TQaYLbr1h

[invisible_east @invisible_east]

We are delighted to be hosting a day course for
@OxLifelongLearn. Join us to explore 'Treasures of the Medieval Islamicate World: Stories of Empire and the Everyday'.

For more information & to book: https://t.co/3AFwv0a5My

#history #silkroads #lifelonglearning #studyatoxford

[Arezou Azad @ArezouAzad]

Join us for this tour through photo archives that document French archaeology in Iran and Afghanistan with the wonderful Martina Massullo !

[invisible_east @invisible_east]

Save the date (12 Nov) for the next ‘Rethinking History: Returning to Archives & Documents’ hybrid seminar.

Martina Massullo of @museelouvre speaking on 'Framing the Past: Exploring the Godard Photographic #Archives of #Iran and #Afghanistan'.

Register: https://t.co/hVo1YjTfTw

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.”
Milan Kundera

[invisible_east @invisible_east]

📢 Book now for the next seminar in 'The Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' series.

📆 17 September, 5pm BST.

🎙️Dilnoza Duturaeva on 'Chinese Documents on the Qarakhanids'.

🔗Register at https://t.co/gerNlwRHaX

#documents #medievalist #history