1. Over the last few days, I have started preparing a presentation on the Maronite scholar Andrea Scandar of Cyprus (Indrāwus Skandar al-Qubrusī, d. 1748)1 for an upcoming conference in Munich organised by my colleague Dr Vevian Zaki and entitled ‘Once We Were Here: Traces of Mobility across the Ottoman Empire‘ (8-10 July 2025). Scandar… Continue reading Andrea Scandar’s Manuscripts in the Vatican Library
Month: June 2025
Initial Funding from LMU Munich
1. Today I got news that I will receive initial funding from my faculty at LMU Munich. I’m very grateful for this. It’s a comparatively small sum (around EUR 9,000). But it can already achieve quite a bit. I will use this funding to carry out preliminary work for a larger project dedicated to the… Continue reading Initial Funding from LMU Munich