This work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]

Persian translation of “The Kite Runner Critiqued: New Orientalism Goes to the Big Screen,” which is a brief critique of Khaled Hosseini’s novel, “The Kite Runner,” as an important example of the New Orientalist narrative on the Middle East and Islamic world.

Brief critique of Khaled Hosseini’s novel “The Kite Runner” as prominent example of New Orientalist narrative on the Middle East.

The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) team—building on the foundational opensource OCR work of the Leipzig University (LU) Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Digital Humanities—has achieved Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracy rates for printed classical Arabic-script texts in the high nineties. These numbers are based on our tes…[Read more]

.Using the concept of “third culture” from social theory, this article examines Charles Kingsley’s use of displacement in his children’s book The Water Babies (1863). In trying to portray the site of moral formation, Kingsley displaces his central character Tom – the new, interstitial “third culture” subject. Through Tom’s displacement, Kingsle…[Read more]