The AnonymClassic project will have the honour of collaborating with Professor F. de Blois in the project’s Close Reading Sessions format. Sessions will include some of the Kalīla and Dimna fragmentstranslated by Rūdhakī (بوعبدالله جعفر بن محمد رودکی) and on Burzoy’s long voyage which have been edited by F. de Blois.  Sessions are in part open to colleagues, researchers and students, also from neighboring institutions. For organizational reasons, however, places must be limited. For the final schedule as well as reading material, please register with Dr. J. J. van Ginkel: jan.van.ginkel@fu-berlin.de before April 15, 2020. François C. de Blois has published widely on Semitic and Iranian languages and on the history of religions in the Near East in pre-modern times. Notably, he contributed to the multi-volume work entitled Persian Literature, which had been initiated by C.A. Storey and published by the Royal Asiatic Society. He served as Professor of Iranian Studies at Hamburg University, and he is a research fellow at University College London where he is engaged in a project on al-Biruni’s Chronology and other Arabic texts on non-Islamic calendars. F.C. de Blois also is a teaching fellow for Aramaic and Middle Iranian languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has been a frequent contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Islam.