In the International Women’s Day, I share an old colophon from the 10th century about two women: Hannah and her fellow 'Azizto, who donated a 9th century manuscript for the Syriac Church in Jerusalem.

📚Dive into the world of DASH (Digital Analysis of #Syriac #Handwriting) with Ephrem's interview with Stanford University Professor Michael Penn. Discover how this tool is used in #paleography of #manuscripts! #digitalhumanities #graphology CIDR digitalorientalist.com/?p=11682

New publication: General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches in the Corpus Christianorum. Brepols 2023, 2 Vols., co-edited by our #Byzanzforschung-colleague Ephrem ISHAC. Congratulations for this massive & groundbreaking work! IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences corpuschristianorum.org/post/general-c…

Just received my copies of the two Syriac volumes: #COGD 5/1-2 (West and East Syriac Synods). I am grateful to all the contributors and to everyone who worked very hard to reach this twin-birth, especially Malphono Robert Kitchen. Indeed, it is a great Christmas present 🎁 😀 🎄!

#newpost! Ephrem experiments the use of #AI with #Syriac, in particular testing #Gemini by Google Google AI How do you think it performs? Check out part one 👇 digitalorientalist.com/2024/02/20/art…

Did you enjoy Ephrem piece on Syriac language and #Gemini Google AI ? We are out with the second part! Having led us through how #Gemini can chat in Syriac, Ephrem Ishac takes us through more useful and fun ways to use this tool! Link below 👇

🌍This Worldy Wednesday, we’re exploring the link between social media and #digitalhumanities. Ephrem's 2020 post highlights the effect digital platforms have on distributing knowledge, through the lens of #Syriac manuscript recovery. digitalorientalist.com/2020/11/10/soc… #history #meta

ܩܡ ܡܪܢ ܡܢ ܩܒܪܐ! المسيح قام! Christ is Risen

The opening of our workshop on Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions, organized by IAS (Institute for Advanced Studies - Princeton): @scsincyberspace, George Anton Kiraz, and Grigory Kessel, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. (IMAFO)

Manuscripts have colophons, and perhaps this photo at the end of our beautiful workshop can function as a pictorial colophon. Many thanks to the organizers: @scsincyberspace, George Anton Kiraz, Grigory Kessel, and Uta Nitschke-Joseph, who brought the spirit of Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) to Austrian Academy of Sciences!

Ephrem Ishac Ephrem on the power of names as attested by the Syriac liturgical manuscripts

Leaving Ghent after an excellent conference on paratexts, organized by UGent and Brepols, where I presented on: Paratexts in Syriac Liturgical Manuscripts. I am thankful to the wonderful organizers and colleagues whom I was privileged to meet!

#SyriacStudies 📺 We are delighted to share a recording of a fascinating talk 👉Dialogue & Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative 👉Dr Ephrem Ishac Ephrem FWF 👉Chaired by Malfono Rabo Prof Sebastian Brock, FBA 📺Happy watching! youtube.com/watch?v=qVVToP…

Thank you so much, Oxford Interfaith Forum | Interfaith Academia 🏅🏅, for the wonderful invitation: it was truly an honor!

My piece today on Artificial Intelligence for Grashuni-Arabic in The Digital Orientalist! digitalorientalist.com/2024/10/25/art… #AI #Garshuni #Syriac #Arabic

Our latest post by Ephrem explores new OCR and HTR advancements on Archive.org Making Syriac and Arabic texts—including manuscripts and Garshuni—searchable and accessible.#Syriac #Arabic #DigitalHumanities #archive #linguistics digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/17/rec…

Our #HTR Winter School is off to an amazing start! After Jan Odstrčilík's opening words, Prof Claudia Rapp gave a warm welcome to everyone here at IMAFO. Looking forward to productive 3 days of collaboration and discovery in the world of manuscript digital recognition!

Ephrem introduces the first public Syriac HTR model on Transkribus helping make Syriac manuscripts more accessible. #digitalhumanities #SyriacStudies #history #HTR #Coding #llm digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/18/fro…

My new piece that was published last week in the Digital Orientalist: digitalorientalist.com/2025/05/13/bey…

We're back from our break! And up first is our final keynote by Ephrem (Austrian Academy of Sciences) on "Who is the Public in a Digital Age? Democratization of HTR—#Syriac as Example" - inviting us to rethink and expand our understanding of “the public”