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Duration:	15. 7. 1997 -
Evidence number:	Projekt XXII
Program:	Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader:	Mgr. Trnovec Silvester PhD.
Annotation:	In 2011 the manifold activities connected with the project XXII. FONTES HISTORIAE AFRICANAE – Sources of African History of l’Union Académique Internationale based in Brussels, by its International Director Viera Vilhanová of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, centred around the preparation together with Director of the Mozambican State Archives, Prof. Joel Neves Tembe, of the meeting of the Chairs of FHA National Committees and of an International conference on the theme Sources for African History in African Languages written in Arabic (Ajami) and Latin Scripts in Eastern and Southern Africa, which is to be held in Maputo, Mozambique, between April 15-20, 2012.
Project web page:	http://www.fonteshistoriaeafricanae.sav.sk/

Duration:	1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:	2/0014/22
Program:	VEGA
Project leader:	Mgr. Beška Emanuel PhD.
Annotation:	Newspapers are among the main primary sources used to explore history of late Ottoman Palestine in the period following the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. However, researchers face a significant obstacle as most of the Arabic periodicals are not extant. Therefore, the fact that almost a complete set of issues of the newspaper al-Quds (Jerusalem in Arabic, published 1908–1914) was made available to researchers in digitized form in 2017 represents a huge opportunity for historians of Ottoman Palestine. The submitted project proposal focuses on this untapped source of immense importance. Its aim is a comprehensive examination and evaluation of the content of the periodical as well as the establishment of an index of all articles published in the newspaper. A further goal is a contextual analysis of the main topics treated in al-Quds during this crucial period. Moreover, it also involves digital humanities with the application of the OCR method on the digitized copies of al-Quds.

Projects total: 10