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Blog posts, articles, and other academic-adjacent content.
Genizah Fragments is written by Melonie Schmierer-Lee
“Printing, Paper, and Provenance Projects in the Post-Medieval Genizah Collection.” Cambridge University Library Special Collections (2022)
“Reading and Writing the Book of Samuel in Spoken Egyptian Arabic.” Biblia Arabica (2021)
“Sticking to the Script: How Hebrew Letters Help Recall the Arabic Language.” The Scholar 18 (2021)
“Recovering the Qur’an in an Egyptian Synagogue (PDF download).” The Scholar 17 (2020)
“The Illustrated Cairo Genizah: A Visual Tour of Cairo Genizah Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library.” New Books Network (2024)
“The Illustrated Cairo Genizah with Nick Posegay” It Means What It Means (2024)
“The Illustrated Cairo Genizah with Dr. Nick Posegay.” iBookbinding Live (2024)
The following threads were originally written for Twitter using the handle @NPosegay (now deleted). These versions were saved using a “thread reader” app and converted to PDF files which are now hosted directly on this website. All the Twitter links are broken, so don’t click them.
How to Lose an Afternoon Chasing Victorian Stationery
The Starbucks Logo Isn’t Not a Watermark
Searching for the Grave of a Prominent Baptist
The previous “Worman Archive” thread mentioned here was revised into a separate blog post.
Arabic Block Printing at Cambridge University Library
Quran Manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah
European Watermarks in the Cairo Genizah
Nabia Abbott, the First Woman Professor at Chicago’s Oriental Institute
The Memorandum for Opticians
The “secret project” here turned out to be The Illustrated Cairo Genizah. The “Genizah Instagram” is this page, which I created and ran until October 2024.
100 Days of Solidarity
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