Project News from Syriaca.org

The Syriaca.org project has been featured in a recent post from MENALIB: The Middle East Virtual Library (https://www.menalib.de/en/2017/09/syriaca-org/). MENALIB is an information service of the University and State Library of Saxon-Anhalt for the study of the Middle East, North Africa, and Islam. It is the successor to the Middle East…

Syriaca.org editors Drs. Daniel Schwartz, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, and Nathan Gibson were interviewed May 24, 2017 on WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio by Mitch Teich of the Lake Effect show. Listen to the interview: MP3 or click on “Listen” at http://wuwm.com/post/turmoil-displaces-middle-eastern-christians-scholars-work-preserve-syriac-culture. Read the article: As Turmoil Displaces Middle Eastern Christians, Scholars…

The official magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities has a short article on The Syriac Gazetteer in its “Curio” section. The author, Steve Moyer, notes: “These days, most speakers of Syriac come from Syria and Iraq, two countries which are wracked by civil war and from which many Syriac…

Sarah Bond of the University of Iowa has written an interesting round up for the Biblical Archeological Society on digital gazetteer projects for the ancient world including The Syriac Gazetteer. Her article notes: “The utility of historical geography in uncovering early Christian communities can also be seen in a number of…