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Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

 
Middle Eastern Studies
Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow
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St Edmund's College
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Dr Ani Avetisyan is a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), a Research Affiliate at the Woolf Institute, and a Research Associate at St Edmund's College. Her PhD research focused on Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Matenadaran, with a forthcoming monograph to be published by Brill. She holds degrees in Arabic Studies from Yerevan State University and Jewish Civilizations from Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Stockholm and Heidelberg University.

Her current research focuses on Judaeo-Arabic scientific manuscripts from the Genizah.

Dr Avetisyan is also a Board Member of the Yesai and Maria Mazmanian Foundation, overseeing outreach, development, and partnerships. Additionally, she is engaged in a project with Dr Aviad Moreno at MALI, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, exploring Armenian-Jewish repatriation dynamics in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.