Dan,

With Elie you have an Arabic project partner.

There is a lot of digitization, though not DH, happening in Iran.
From the outside it is tricky to assess and perhaps you could use twitter for reaching out to
ShahreFarang 
https://twitter.com/ShahreFarang

Media Ajam
https://twitter.com/AjamMC

Sidewalk Lyrics
https://twitter.com/pedestrian

asking for suggestions.

best wishes

Dagmar

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Dagmar Riedel
Center for Iranian Studies
Columbia University
https://twitter.com/iranicaonline

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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
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Canada

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