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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please distribute throughout your professional networks<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I hope you are enjoying a peaceful summer and managing to stay cool </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">☀</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">️</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is a reminder that the editorial team of Open Iberia/América (primarily Castilian editor Sol Miguel-Prendes and me, with the support of a team of editors specialized in
the languages of the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas) maintains a collection of pedagogical editions of medieval and early modern texts at
<a href="https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/">https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A number of these texts are of particular interest to teachers and students of Andalusi and Aljamiado studies:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2021/02/18/ibn-hazm/">Ibn Hazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting
the City of Cordova)</a> <a href="https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2021/02/18/ibn-hazm/">
(Cordova, 1031)</a><span style="font-style:normal"> (ed. Mustafa Binmayaba, Arabic/Spanish/English)</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2020/09/17/cantar-de-mio-cid-ca-1200/">Cantar de Mio Cid (1207)</a>
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(ed. Matthew Bailey, Medieval Castilian/Modern Spanish/English)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2021/02/05/sendebar-1253/">Sendebar (1253)</a><span style="font-style:normal"> (ed. David
Arbesú, Medieval Castilian/Modern Spanish/English)</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2021/12/06/omar-paton-memorial-de-ida-y-venida-hasta-meca-memoir-of-the-journey-to-and-from-mecca-castile-15th-c/">Omar
Patón, Memorial de ida y venida hasta Makka (Memoir of the journey to and from Mecca) (late 15th century)</a><span style="font-style:normal"> (ed. Pablo Roza Candás, Aljamiado/Modern Spanish/English)</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2022/01/24/legend-de-la-doncella-carcayciyona-aragon-ca-1587/">Anonymous, Leyenda de la Doncella
Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) </a><span style="font-style:normal"> (ed. Donnie Wood and Jordan Kaplan, Aljamiado/Modern Spanish/English)</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The texts are edited in their original languages, with an introduction for students and non-specialists, translation, and notes in English. There is also a version with introduction,
translation, and notes in Spanish, so the units can be used in either English- or Spanish-speaking classrooms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All texts are published under a
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/">Creative Commons license</a>, and so can be downloaded, copied, modified, and distributed without copyright fees or permission, but with attribution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We currently have some twenty texts published, most of them excerpts (approx. 2000-5000 words) of longer works, with a number of other texts in the pipleline.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you are interested in collaborating by contributing a text that you like to teach, or have always wanted to teach but that lacked a pedagogical edition, please have a look
at our (relatively flexible) editorial norms, and please be in touch with me (wacks@uoregon.edu).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best wishes,<br>
David<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">Head and Professor of Spanish<br>
Dept of Romance Languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">University of Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">General Editor, <i><a href="https://openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/"><span style="color:#954F72">Open Iberia/América Teaching Anthology</span></a></i><br>
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