| Oct 24, 2026 | 🏷 QCRI Summer Internship Our paper QuranicMMLU: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Evaluating Generative AI Solutions on Quranic Linguistic Knowledge was accepted at ArabicNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP 2026. Congratulations to Rawan El Ghali, Umm Kulsoom, Anas Madkoor, Dima Faris Alsaudi, Roaa Abdelmagid, Roaa Ibrahim, Raghad Mousa, Hamza Aljaji, Abdullah Khanafer, Abdallah Alkanani, Salah Feras Alali, and Rawan Khaled Mohamed. |
| Aug 20, 2026 | 🏷 Fanar · Cultural Alignment & Benchmarking Our paper The Alignment Veto: How Safety Training Suppresses Cultural Knowledge in LLMs was accepted at EMNLP 2026 — a diagnostic study of how safety-alignment training systematically suppresses culturally grounded knowledge in large language models. Congratulations to Pardis Sadat Zahraei, and to our collaborators Gokhan Tur and Dilek Hakkani-Tür at UIUC. |
| Jul 10, 2026 | 🏷 Fanar · Document Understanding Our paper Reasoning over Non-Parametric Memory in Multilingual LLMs: A Cognitive-Based Analysis of Relational Knowledge was accepted at COLM 2026 — probing relational reasoning in RAG-style settings across factual, counterfactual, and neutralized contexts, over six languages and Bloom-inspired cognitive levels. Congratulations to Zohreh Abbasi Liasi, Batoul Hammoud, and Anas Madkoor. |
| Apr 19, 2026 | 🏷 Fanar · Fanar-Tokenizer · Image Understanding Two papers arising from our work on Fanar were accepted to Findings of ACL 2026: MorphBPE: Morphology-Aware Tokenization for Efficient LLM Training and Almieyar-Oryx-BloomBench: A Bilingual Multimodal Benchmark for Cognitively Informed Evaluation of Vision-Language Models. |
| Mar 29, 2026 | SilkRoadNLP workshop held at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco — our initiative on NLP for the Iranian family of languages and cultures along the historical Silk Road. |
| Mar 27, 2026 | We are honored to receive the Best Resource Paper Award at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco! |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Arabic NLP School held at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco — a full-day school on foundational and advanced topics in Arabic language technologies, with over 120 participants selected from 300+ applications. |
| Jan 03, 2026 | Three papers accepted at EACL 2026 — two in the main conference and one in Findings. Congratulations to all co-authors! |