The UWA Cluster of Excellence is looking for a doctoral researcher in the field of microbiology and molecular biology to work on a project entitled 'Investigation of the autochthonous microbiota of parchment and identification of potential microbial reasons for decay'.

A long-term member of the CSMC, Silpsupa Jaengsawang leaves Hamburg to join the Department of Asian and North African Studies (Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea) at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, which is renowned for its exceptional diversity in language teaching.

What role did local languages play in West African Islamic scholarship? Dmitry Bondarev and colleagues explore this in ‘African Voices in the Islamic Manuscripts from Mali’, focusing on rarely studied Ajami manuscripts. At the project’s halfway mark, we discussed their achievements and next steps.