At the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) in Erlangen (8–12 September 2025), Berlin Semitists presented the results of their research in the Semitistik and Christlicher Orient sections.

The following papers were delivered:

• Assaf Bar-Moshe, Pronominal Suffix Variation in the Tigris qǝltu Dialects: Historical Perspectives on Jewish and Muslim Dialects
• Julia Furman, The Book of the Main Points in Light of Late Seventh-Century Syriac Apocalypses: End of the Known World or Dawn of a New Era?
• Fabio Gasparini, The Causative Stem in Mehri
• Maciej Klimiuk, From Accidental Discovery to Linguistic Analysis: Documenting the Arabic Dialect of Hama, Syria
• Yousef Kouriyhe, Abraham in syrischer Literatur und im Koran 
• Nikita Kuzin, Prosthetic Vowels and the Causative Stem in Aramaic in Light of Contact between Aramaic and Arabic
• Rainer Voigt, Zu den passivischen T-Stämmen im Tigre

We are also pleased to announce that Prof. Shabo Talay has been elected Deputy Speaker of the Semitic Studies section of the DMG.