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

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

“In the middle of the 19th century, Arabic-speaking immigrants began to appear among the waves of newcomers arriving in the United States...”

“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...”

“Few things can impact daily life in quite the way that weather does...”

“In the days before social media, how did people share a noteworthy weather phenomena...”

“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...”

“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...”

“If you want to establish a new church, you’re likely going to need some books...”

“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.”

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“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”

“Christianity has a long, rich history in India. Some even trace the origins of Christian communities in India to...”

“Angels occupy an important place in monotheistic religions. They are mainly presented as celestial beings...”

“The Syriac Book of Medicines is a fascinating compendium of medical lore from the...”

“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...”

“Who hasn’t heard a fairy tale about a princess whose beauty moves the richest and...”

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

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

“HMML’s digital collections include entertaining stories from a wide range of linguistic 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?”

“Towards the end of Getatchew Haile’s first published catalog of Ethiopic manuscripts...”

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

“Much has been said about the scholarly achievements of Prof. Getatchew Haile...”

“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...”

“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.”