- In “The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 2)” (Digital Orientalist), Abdulqadir Haidermota (Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah) observes that, “for the historian of the Mediterranean, Geniza documents are rightly celebrated for their detailed preservation of the material world—offering up the price of flax, the lineage of a merchant, or the date of a decree.” His study asks “what happens when we treat these formulaic expressions not as background noise, but as structured data points—patterns that might reveal an emotional logic beneath the surface, allowing for the visualisation of a constitutive underlying architecture that isolated close reading often misses.” (Note: Part 1 “outlines the background of the pilot study and its methodology” while Part 2 “focuses on the outcomes.”