Amir Harrak, professor of Syriac and Aramaic languages at the University of Toronto, poses for a photo in Toronto on Aug. 8, 2014. Mr. Harrak has been working to preserve rare inscriptions written in ...
Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP/Bram Janssen) For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities ...
Milwaukee — Marquette University hosted a workshop May 23-24 that focused on preserving and digitally recording the heritage of Syriac Christianity in the Middle East. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon ...