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