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Laura Fish

@LauraFish6

PhD Middle East Studies; Acquisitions Editor at Syracuse University Press; Filmfarsi fangirl; friend to cats; she/her; tweets my own
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Tip for scholars/authors transliterating Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish to Latin letters:
ع renders as ʿ
ء renders as ʾ
In Word, go to Insert>Symbol, then for ع/ʿ find code 02BF and for ء/ʾ find code 02BE. Keep those in your Recently used. Please 🙏. Stop using apostrophes!!!
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Yay to @FadiZaghmout on all the lovely reviews coming in for his book The Man of Middling Height and this lil feature: lithub.com/reading-around…
lithub.com Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…
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Not sure who's left here, but I'll be at MESA to meet with prospective authors in most fields related to Middle East Studies. If you'll be there in person, I'd love to meet with you and talk publishing (calendly.com/lfish01/mesa-2…); if you won't be there in person, email me to Zoom!
calendly.com MESA 2025 One-on-One Meetings - Laura K Fish As an acquisitions editor for Syracuse University Press, I'll be hosting in-person one-on-one meetings for MESA 2025 for prospective authors/collaborators. If you're attending the conference, I'd...
Laura Fish @LauraFish6
This is, as one of the would-be contributors puts it, “incredibly shameful.”
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit Jul 22, 2025
But on 9 June, the Harvard Education Publishing Group, the journal’s publisher, abruptly canceled the release. In an email to the issue’s contributors, the publisher cited “a number of complex issues”

theguardian.com/education/2025…
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