Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
This post is the second part of a conversation between Ephrem A. Ishac and David Michaelson on the state of … Continue reading Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (2)
Between October and November 2025, Prof. David Michelson served as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) … Continue reading Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (1)
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous … Continue reading Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past
Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of … Continue reading From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus
For scholars and students of Syriac and Arabic, the vast digital text library of Archive.org has always held immense potential. … Continue reading Recent Advancements: Unlocking Syriac and Arabic Texts on Archive.org
The recent rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like Gemini has opened up exciting new possibilities for interacting with and … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence for Garshuni-Arabic on Gemini
In my previous post (Part 1: here), I presented some preliminary tests of chatting in Classical Syriac with Google Bard (/Gemini) … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence for Syriac on Google Bard (/Gemini) – Preliminary Tests (Part2)
Since the release of the ChatGPT, many Syriac users have been hoping that this chatbot would enable Syriac as a … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence for Syriac on Google Bard (/Gemini) – Preliminary Tests (Part1)
In previous years I have posted some interviews with different projects to trace the history of the Syriac Digital Humanities. … Continue reading An Interview on DASH: Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting
This is part 2 of my posts on the Syriac materials that I have found in Yale: The Beinecke Rare … Continue reading Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: A Mysterious Box of Syriac Fragments at Yale University (Part 2)