As we mark a decade of sharing bibliographic updates and scholarly announcements, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to our colleagues, readers and supporters. What began as a small initiative has grown into a platform reaching around 1,200 readers per week. Your engagement, encouragement, and feedback have been invaluable in shaping and sustaining this project. We deeply appreciate your continued interest and look forward to many more years of collaboration, discovery, and shared enthusiasm for Iranian Studies.
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Sometime in 2012, I began experimenting with posting bibliographic announcements on what was then called Twitter. I made several attempts, but Twitter’s character limit prevented me from posting full bibliographic information. Initially, I was hesitant to connect the Twitter account to a website, but Ursula Sims-Williams encouraged me to do so.
I rejoined Twitter in 2013 and made my first announcement on 7 November 2013, which was linked and preserved on my personal website. I continued this until 10 May 2015, as the general response was positive. It was then that I approached Shervin Farridnejad and Yazdan Safaee with the idea of collaborating on a new website to announce new publications related to Iranian Studies.
In everything I do, I prioritise simplicity, but I also wanted an open and collaborative approach. With this in mind, I proposed limiting our work to announcing new publications and events without adding further commentaries. My goal was to ensure that the new site remained active for as long as possible.
Although I write most of the public announcements related to BiblioIranica and manage the website, our achievements are the result of the open and friendly collaboration that the three of us have maintained over the years. The past decade—and the one ahead—owe much to Shervin and Yazdan’s dedication, endurance, and contributions. I could not be more grateful to them.
We had to leave Twitter—now X—after Jetpack discontinued its X plug-in. We are now active on our Bluesky, Facebook, and Mastodon accounts. Each announcement is also posted on our personal social media accounts. However, the most complete and uninterrupted collection remains the website itself.
As we approach a decade, I have slightly revised the website design and will be refining a few details. I am delighted to relaunch BiblioIranica with a beautiful logo, designed by my friend Amir Mahdi Moslehi—a talented calligrapher, font designer, musician, researcher, and, above all, an exceptional human being.
Amir Mahdi Moslehi is an Iranian type designer, calligrapher, and researcher based in Hamburg, Germany. He holds a Post-Master’s degree in Typographic Research from the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (Nancy, France) and is currently pursuing a master’s in Manuscript Culture at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) in Hamburg. Recently, he became a PhD candidate at the CSMC, University of Hamburg.
His Arabic-script typefaces blend research with calligraphy and are distributed by Maryamsoft (Iran) and Rosetta Type Foundry (Czech Republic). His work has received multiple awards, including the Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the New York Type Directors Club and Granshan Type Design Prizes.
Short bio of Amir Mahdi