On Tuesday, Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, received Mark Mourad and his family. Mark is the young innovator who developed "Scribe Me," an AI-powered smart application that integrates with smartphones and smart glasses to describe the surrounding world in real-time.

Pope Tawadros Praises the Perseverance of Mark, Inventor of the Assistive Glasses

The meeting took place at the Papal Headquarters at St. Mark's Cathedral in Abbasiya, where the Pope expressed his admiration for Mark’s spirit of perseverance and innovation, encouraging him to continue on this path.

Pope Tawadros Urges Mark to Strive for Further Innovations

Pope Tawadros encouraged the young innovator to exert further effort in creating more inventions; His Holiness also took a keen interest in understanding the concept behind the innovation and how it functions.

Pope Tawadros Honored the Inventor of the Assistive Glasses in 2024

Pope Tawadros had previously honored Mark in July 2024 for developing an AI-based program that assists the visually impaired in reading PowerPoint slides and interpreting images—including all their details. The program extracts text from images and converts it into readable text, enabling the visually impaired to read easily; this program has successfully assisted visually impaired individuals across 25 countries.