“In many Muslim communities, the annual celebration of the Prophet Muḥammad’s birthday is one of the most festive occasions of the year...”

“Church libraries in Ethiopia have often depended upon wealthy and powerful patrons...”

“The manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea come in all shapes and sizes...”

“Animals in scripts as symbols of meaning and the art of communicating a message...”

“The refrain “The Lord works in mysterious ways” is rarely truer than it is in the Ethiopic Miracles of Mary...”

“In the New Testament, Acts of the Apostles (17:34), Luke describes the ‘marketplace of ideas’ in Athens...”

“Bird watching is typically an activity that...”

“Interwoven tapestry of the natural and spiritual worlds as observed through the Armenian liturgical calendar...”

“An answer to the question of what it means to be human...”

“Dr. Arthur Voobus was many things—a scholar, pastor, teacher, and refugee in exile...”

“The organ is not the first musical instrument that comes to mind when...”

“The book of vows contained one manuscript...”

“Ephrem is perhaps the most widely known of all Syriac authors...”

“Stories about saints, much like their relics, rarely remain tied to...”

“Khalīl ibn Jirjis Janāwī was a scribe, a collector of manuscripts, and an artist who was...”

“The act of hand-copying a manuscript requires specialized skills that...”

“Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict...”

“What would you do if someone handed you a page that had clearly been torn out of a book...”

“In the early decades of HMML, the region beyond the proverbial Iron Curtain was out of reach.”

“The Lebanese poet, journalist, and linguist Ibrāhīm al-Yāzijī (1847–1906) has gained fame as a...”

“Printing reached Ethiopia rather late. In Europe, texts were occasionally printed in Ethiopic characters from...”

“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”

“Today, depending on what communities you are a part of, your concept of a year may follow a calendar that is...”

“In Syriac Christian communities, astrological texts were sometimes appended to medical books and...”

“Among the well-known biblical narratives is that of the twins Jacob and Esau, and...”

“In 1744, the French Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary established a convent in ʻAynṭūrah, Lebanon, known in Arabic as...”

“Who doesn’t love a good glass of wine? White, red, or something in between, authors throughout history...”

“On a shelf in the Syriac Orthodox Church of Saint George in Aleppo is a manuscript copied in Arabic Garshuni...”

“Biblical narratives often leave the audience wanting to know a bit more.”

“Despite having been contested in Islamic history by powerful groups rejecting them as illegitimate practices, magic and...”

“We live in a world ravaged by a pandemic, by wars, by all manner of catastrophic and...”

“Have you ever heard a great joke, but then later when you tried to recount it for someone else, you couldn’t remember it?”

“When people ask how we find new projects for HMML, I admit that sometimes they just come to us.”

“In 1945, a pharmacist living in Lebanon—Manaseh Kaprielian—presented a 17th-century Armenian manuscript to...”

“This note is the sole testament to the manuscript’s remarkable journey from Egypt to Mardin, a city in...”

“Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Ethiopian Emperor Zar’a Yā‘eqob, a prominent theologian and scholar, faced...”

“On this day seventy-five years ago, an early-14th century illuminated gospel book arrived at the...”

“Many medical works from antiquity were translated into Syriac and transmitted through the...”

“People in past centuries would sometimes use the blank flyleaves and margins of manuscripts to...”

“The Monastery of Saint Macarius is one of the oldest active Coptic monasteries in Egypt.”

“The work of Dr. Getatchew Haile, long-time curator of the HMML Ethiopia Study Center...”

“Lebanon is one of the most religiously variegated countries in the Middle East.”