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 medieval manuscripts discovered in the Ben Ezra Synagogue, offers a remarkable glimpse into the cultural and linguistic interactions of the Jewish communities in Egypt. But sometimes, surprising non-Jewish documents surface. This talk delves into the intriguing history of the Syriac presence in Egypt, exploring how some documents produced by the Syriac-speaking communities ended up in the Cairo Genizah.