Editors’ Choice: Social Media and the Distribution of Knowledge about Missing Syriac Manuscripts
Digital Humanities Now 2020-11-11
Summary:
A few months ago, I noticed a plethora of posts on social media about the discovery of the hidden library of a former ISIS member who had stolen dozens of Syriac manuscripts from Churches and hidden them in the kitchen of his house in the city of Mosul, Iraq. This discovery and reactions to it...