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Collaboration with Universities

(a). As “Regional and Research Centre” of the Mahatma Gandhi University at Kottayam, Kerala, India, SEERI offers:

  • Master’s Degree Course in Syriac Language and Literature.
  • Research Programmes leading to Ph. D in Syriac Language and Literature.
  • A single semester Certificate course in Syriac Language.
    (The successful completion of this Course is a prior requirement for graduates to initiate the M.A Syriac course, unless they had done Syriac as second language).

(b). SEERI has collaboration agreement with:

  1. Oriental Institute of the Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany.

  2. Institut Orientalist of the Catholic University, Louvain - la -Neuve, Belgium

  3. Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon

(c). On specific programmes this Institute works in close collaboration with :

  • Peshita Institute, Leiden University, Holland.
  • CNRS members, Institute for Semitic Studies, College de France and E.P.H.E., Paris, France.
  • Catholic University, Paris, France.
  • University of Oxford, U.K.
  • Catholic University of America, Washington DC, U.S.A.
  • Institute for Liturgy and Hymnology, Graz University, Austria.
  • Evangelische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium
  • CERO, Antelias, Lebanon
  • Georg- August University, Göttingen, Germany
  • Dept. of Near & Middle Eastern Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
  • Catholic University, Addis - Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Academia, Yerevan Armenia

(d). Research and study at SEERI are conducted in consultation with reputed scholars such as:

  • Dr. Sebastian P. Brock, U.K.
  • Dr. Günther Claas, Harsewinkel, Germany.
  • Dr. Andrea Schmidt, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium.
  • Dr. Sidney Griffith, C. U. A., Washington D.C.
  • Dr. Françoise B. Chatonnet, College de France.
  • Dr. Alain Desreumaux, CNRS, Paris.
  • Dr. Jürgen Tubach, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany.
  • Dr. Wolfgang Hage, Marburg University, Germany.
  • Dr. Harald Suermann, Missio, Achen, Germany
  • Dr. Rifaat Ebied, University of Sidney, Australia.
  • Dr. Herman Teule, University of Nijmegen, Holland.
  • Dr. Martin Tamcke, Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany.
  • Dr. Karl Heinz Kuhlmann, Leuven University.
  • Dr. Terry C. Falla, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Dr. Abdo Badwi, Holy Spirit Univ. Lebanon.
  • Dr. Louis Hage, Holy spirit University, Lebanon.
  • Dr. Istvan Perczel, Central European University, Budapest. Hungary.
  • Dr. Arnon Armand, Abbot, Scourmont, Belgium
  • Mr. Thomas Abraham IFS (Retd.) Trivandrum.