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Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (2)

This post is the second part of a conversation between Ephrem A. Ishac and David Michaelson on the state of…

Between October and November 2025, Prof. David Michelson served as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO)…

The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous…

Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of…

For scholars and students of Syriac and Arabic, the vast digital text library of Archive.org has always held immense potential.…

The recent rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like Gemini has opened up exciting new possibilities for interacting with and…

In my previous post (Part 1: here), I presented some preliminary tests of chatting in Classical Syriac with Google Bard (/Gemini)…

Since the release of the ChatGPT, many Syriac users have been hoping that this chatbot would enable Syriac as a…

In previous years I have posted some interviews with different projects to trace the history of the Syriac Digital Humanities.…

This is part 2 of my posts on the Syriac materials that I have found in Yale: The Beinecke Rare…