PhD Candidate in Syriac and Aramaic Studies at the University of Toronto's Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilisations. Research Assistant at OBNS Lab -University of Toronto. My academic interests include: - Near Eastern history, historiography, culture and sacred arts from Late Antiquity to the Early Ottoman period- Syriac, Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin languages - Manuscript Studies and Print Culture and History: Codicology, Paleography (Syriac, Arabic and Near Eastern in general; Greek, Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, +); Manuscript Conservation; Manuscript Digitization - Archaeology (Near and Middle Eastern)- Manuscriptology, including Codicology, manuscript and ink analysis, Biocodicology and- Digital Humanities/Digital Epigraphy - Visual Arts (Antique, Medieval and Modern Near and Middle Eastern and European)- Heritage (natural and cultural)Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies and Print Culture, Course Instructor Teaching Fellow (CITF) and Teaching Assistant (TA) with a demonstrated history of working in higher education, cultural heritage, government, media communications, and Human and Humanitarian Rights. Skilled in academic research and university level teaching, digital epigraphy, multilingual translation, public relations, project management, media relations, and journalism.