Associate Professor, Modern Arabic Literature and Film, Principal Investigator, European Research Council project 

Betty Rosen earned her Ph.D. in Arabic and Hebrew Literature from the University of California-Berkeley’s Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Program in Critical Theory in 2023. She also holds an MA in Arabic Literature from SOAS University of London and an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Harvard College. Her…

George A. Kiraz is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study, teaches Syriac at Princeton University, and is the director of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute. He has written extensively on Syriac studies, computational linguistics, and the digital humanities. 

The Cairo Genizah, a treasure trove of…