Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
Yes we all know; Google translator is best described as “quick and dirty”. Nonetheless, we all use it because it…
Author: maximabdulatif
The Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic
In 2013 the Arabic Center for Research and Politics Studies launched an ambitious ongoing program to build an Arabic Historical…
Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️
In this post our Arabo-Islamic Studies editor Maxim digs deeper into searching full-text Arabic corpora, comparing Shamela with Elkirtasse. He shows us…
Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer
The most famous Arabic digital library (both online and on computer) is al-Shamila. It contains roughly 7260 Arabic books (when this…
DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art…