The Digital Syriac Corpus: An Interview with Prof. James E. Walters
In addition to the contributions of the Beth Mardutho Institute to the world of Syriac Digital Humanities (which I have…
Author: Ephrem A. Ishac
Social Media and the Distribution of Knowledge about Missing Syriac Manuscripts
A few months ago, I noticed a plethora of posts on social media about the discovery of the hidden library…
Google Lens for Syriac: Something Groundbreaking?
Recently, Google updated its engine on many smartphones in order to add the new technology of Google Lens to its…
The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 2
This is the third part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on…
Re-Discovering MS Zafaran N. 12: A story of the power of social media and on finding lost materials in digital archives
For two years now, I have searched for a manuscript on the Synod of Hattackh of 1576. In the 1956,…
Brief Notes on OCR and the Automated Transcription of Syriac Books
Recently, I have been experimenting to see how well Google Docs can transcribe and perform OCR on Syriac books in…
The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 1
This is the second part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on…
An Introduction to the History of Syriac Digital Humanities
This is the first part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac. This…