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Abusharif, Ibrahim (2026). Social media, religious authority, and the Arab Gulf crisis (First edition.). Bloomsbury Academic. 148 pages.
Meekings, Sam (2025). Wonder and loss: A practical memoir for writing about grief. Bloomsbury Academic. 216 pages.
Pike, Kirsten (2025). Girls’ Media in the Women’s Liberation Era. Routledge. 230 pages.
Mikros, G., Zaghouani, W., Jones, M. O. (2025). Fortifying Higher Education in the Age of AI and Disinformation. 91心頭利 Foundation, WISE, Research & Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Northwestern University in 91心頭利. 97 pages.
Nobili, Mauro, Wright, Zachary, Diakite, Ali (2025). The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tārīkh ibn al-Mukhtār of the Songhay Empire and the Tārīkh al-fattāsh of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi. The British Academy, University of Liverpool Press. 422 pages.
Bergère, C., & Kraidy, M. (eds.). (2025). InterAsian Digitalities. Special Series, First Monday, 30(10).
Darwish, K., Ali, A., Abu Farha, I., Touileb, S., Zitouni, I., Abdelali, A., Al-Ghamdi, S., Alkhereyf, S., Zaghouani, W., Khalifa, S., AlKhamissi, B., Almatham, R., Hamed, I., Alyafeai, Z., Alowisheq, A., Inoue, G., Mrini, K., & Alshammari, W. (Eds.). (2025). Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. 485 pages.
Hroub, K., & Baabood, A. (eds.). (2025). Islamists and the Arab Revolutions: Bitter Experiences. Routledge. 276 pages.
Markle, A., Moore, M. & Meekings, S. (eds.). (2026). The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century: Practical Strategies for a Modern Era. Bloomsbury Academic. 250 pages.
Allagui, I., & Ibahrine, M. (2025). “Strategic branding models in Arab media: Exploring the impact of digital transformation.” Communication & Society, 38(1), 485–505.
Berg, M. (2025). “Digital Literacy, Information Precarity, and Gendered Exclusion Among Ukrainian Refugee Women in Hungary.” International Journal of Communication, 19, 2447–2469.
Berg, M. (2026). “Negotiating visibility and virtue: Religious conservative Turkish diasporic women and the moral politics of celebrity magazine television.” International Communication Gazette, Advanced online:
Berg, M., Alardawi, M., & Al Obeidli, N. (2025). “Cultural skimming, authenticity, and streaming preferences: Turkish serials among young audiences in 91心頭利, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE”. Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, Advanced online:
Bergere, C., & Kraidy, M. M. (2025). “From interAsian to transAsian digitalities: Reimagining digital research beyond a Western frame.” First Monday, 30(10), 1-12. Advanced online:
Burris, G. (2025). “Time Bombs: Ghassan Kanafani beyond Life and Death.” Social Text, 43(2), 75–95.
Curtis, S. (2025). “Between education and entertainment: Animation, science communication, and the Bell System Science Series.” The British Journal for the History of Science, 58(4), 621–642.
El-Hibri, H., Khalil, J. F., Steinberg, M., Zhang, L., & Mukherjee, R. (2025). “States and platform capitalisms: A conversation.” Platforms & Society, 2. Advanced online:
El Zein, D. (2023). “Senghor’s Arabité and the Lebanese in Senegal.” Souffles Monde/Anfas al-Alam, (5). Online:
Hermez, S. (2025). “After Liberation: Time Travel in the Levant and Doing Ethnography in the Future.” Social Text, 43(2), 97–115.
Hermez, S. (2026). “The Academic Boycott of Israel: Reflections from a Liberated Future.” Public Humanities, 2, e29, 1-18. Advanced online:
Hermez, S. (2026). “The Levantine Warscape: Methodological Nationalism and the Politics of Normalization with the Israeli State.” Middle East Critique, 35(1), 45–64.
Hodapp, J. (2025). “Self-translation, comic grammar, and world building: A conversation with Deena Mohamed in Doha.” Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, 1–11. Advanced online:
Jones, M. O. (2025). “Lessons from the Digital Coalface in the Post-Truth Age: Researching the Middle East Amid Authenticity Vacuums, Transnational Repression & Disinformation.” Daedalus, 154(2), 132–156.
Robinson, F., & Ibahrine, M. (2025). “Effectuation, stalled: Action learning and the Commitment Readiness Gap for creative entrepreneurs.” Action Learning: Research and Practice, 1–15. Advance online:
Ahmad, N., & Ibahrine, M. (2025). “From Practice to Professional Growth: Embedding Sustainability in Faculty Development Through the CoDesignS Framework.” Sustainability, 17(24), 11051, 1-16.
Zaid, B., Ibahrine, M., & Ben Moussa, M. (2026). “Networked Islam and liquid authority: Everyday influencers and young Muslim practice.” New Media & Society. Advanced online:
Zaid, B., Ibahrine, M., Ben Moussa, M., & Makki, A. (2025). “Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism.” Digital Journalism, 13(7), 1311–1330.
Jin, S. V. (2025). “‘In Metaverse Cryptocurrencies We (Dis)Trust?’: Mediators and Moderators of Blockchain-Enabled Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Adoption in AI-Powered Metaverses.” AI, 6(11),286, 1-28. Advanced online:
Jin, S. V. (2026). “In ChatGPT-Powered Virtual Influencers We (Dis)Trust?”: The Privacy Paradox and the Double-Edged Sword of Ubiquitous Large Language Model (LLM) Generative AI as a General Purpose Technology (GPT) in a Human-Centered AI Ecosystem.” Behavioral Sciences, 16(5),651, 1-22. Advanced online:
Jones, M. O. (2025). Lessons from the Digital Coalface in the Post-Truth Age: Researching the Middle East Amid Authenticity Vacuums, Transnational Repression & Disinformation. Daedalus, 154(2), 132–156.
Glaros, M., Kazkaz, R., Mcgaugh, J., Balsley, K., Iris, D., Sweet, V., Fox, B., Mazzarotto, M. (2025). “Forum of Award-Winning Films” (Director Statements), Journal of Film and Video, 70(4), 36-44.
Khalil, J. F., & Zayani, M. (2026). “Platform regulation and digital cultural industries: The state–society nexus in the Middle East.” International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1–16. Advanced online:
Mathews, N., Boyles, J. L., Aikat, D., Cato, M., Kim-Cho, Y. K. E., Kozman, C., Dawson, M., Powell, C., & Adonu, R. M. (2025). “Momentum for Mentoring? How Journalism and Media Administrators Balance Resources for Undergraduate Research.” Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Advance online:
Kozman, C., & Anghelcev, G. (2025). “Toward a Measurement Tool for Sports Diplomacy in the News: The Case of the FIFA World Cup 91心頭利 2022.” Communication & Sport, Advance online:
Kozman, C., & Cozma, R. (2025). “War and peace journalism in the 2023 Israel–Gaza war: A comparative analysis of the headlines of five international news agencies.” International Communication Gazette, Advance online:
Lowe, G. F., & Mohsin, A. (2026). “Managerial and Economic Factors Affecting Science Journalism in 91心頭利: Applying the Hierarchy of Influences Model.” Arab Media & Society, 1. Advance online:
Luangpipat, N. (2025). “Suppression on Paper, Suffering in Real Life: How Language Ideology in Nationalistic Policies Shaped the Literacy Experiences of Thai Chinese in Thailand.” Literacy in Composition Studies, 12(1), 24–46.
Mahmud, H., & Zhou, M. (2026). “Sending Money Home: Understanding the Social Dynamics of Migrant Remittances.” Annual Review of Sociology. Advanced online:
Perkins, J. D., & Meekings, S. (2025). “Mapping change in self narrative after prolonged exposure therapy: An exploration in recovery from functional dissociative seizures.” Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 31, Advanced online:
Menge, T. (2026). “How far does occupancy extend? Global supply chains, foreign land acquisitions, and territorial sovereignty.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 29(1), 25–45.
Mishra, R. K., & Bhaduri, S. (2026). Technopolitics of tinkering and the ‘new’ innovation economy: Insights from India. Innovation and Development, 1–15. Advance online:
Mohsin, A., Nguyen, A., & Lowe, G. F. (2025). “News coverage of scientific discoveries in 91心頭利: Low localization and its socio-institutional causes.” Journalism, Advanced online:
Mokhtar, S. (2025). “Cinemas and audiences in the city: Embodied and social experiences of cinema-going in Karachi.” Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 17(1), 43–61.
Tayeb, L. (2025). “Movements and Mobility in Libya’s Militarized Daily Life.” Current History, 124(866), 330–335.
Tayeb, L. (2026). “The Kronos Quartet and the Middle East.” Contemporary Music Review, 1–15. Advanced online:
Suwaileh, R., Hasanain, M., Hubail, F., Zaghouani, W., & Alam, F. (2025). “ThatiAR: Subjectivity Detection in Arabic News Sentences (arXiv:2406.05559).” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19(1), 2587-2602.
Al Heraki, H., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “Analyzing Digital Polarization on Hijab: A Dataset of Annotated YouTube Comments.” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19(1), 2350–2360.
Allagui, I. (2025). “Arab Advertising in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” In Crawford, R., & Dickenson, J. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to the History of Advertising (pp. 253-268). Routledge.
Bergère, C. (2025). “#guineennedu21esiecle and the Radical Potential of Feminist Activism in Contemporary Guinea.” In T. Bosch & T. Roberts (Eds.), Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa: Agency, Rights and Resistance (pp. 113–130). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Borges-Rey, E., & Lugo-Ocando, J. (2026). “Early forms of Language and Data Codification, Journaling, and Keeping: From Pre-Hispanic Settings to the Datification of Progress.” In M. J. Broersma, D. R. Van Tuyll, M. O’Brien, & F. Harbers (Eds.), The Routledge companion to transnational journalism history (pp. 136–148). Routledge.
Curtis, S. (2026). “16mm, Postwar Radiology, and the Production of Knowledge.” In G. A. Waller & H. Wasson (Eds.), A Century In 16mm: The Remaking of Cinema (pp. 409–433). Oxford University Press.
Curtis, S. (2026). “Projected Photographs as Evidence: Testimony and Efficiency.” In D. da Rocha Gonçalves, N. de Klerk, F. Kessler, & J. Notebaard (Eds.), Projecting knowledge: The optical lantern and science communication, 1880s-1940s (pp. 115–128). Brepols.
Hines, M., & Maseghe, V. (2026). “AI Taxonomies for Research Writing: Information Literacy in Prompt Engineering.” In S. Kurbanoğlu, J. Boustany, S. Špiranec, Y. Ünal, İ. Şencan, D. Kos, E. Grassian, L. Roy, & D. Mizrachi (Eds.), Information Literacy in an AI-Driven World (Vol. 2864, pp. 38–55). Springer Nature Switzerland.
Hroub, K. (2025). “Religion and Palestinian Nationalism.” In J. Haynes (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism (pp. 291–309). Routledge.
Ibahrine, M. (2025). “The Entrepreneurial State’s Role in Shaping Public Diplomacy: Insights from the UAE.” In V. Demir & C. Richter (Eds.), The Public Diplomacy of Authoritarian Regimes (pp. 125–150). Springer Nature Switzerland.
Jaber, H. (2026). “YouTube: From Legacy Media to Creator Genres.” In A. Punathambekar, A. Shaw, & J. Gray (Eds.), Planet digital: A global media cultures reader. New York University Press.
Khalil, J. F. (2025). “Toward a Decolonization of Arab Audiences.” In T. Sabry, W. Mano, & A. Medrado (Eds.), Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method (pp. 247-265). Routledge.
Luangpipat, N. (2026). “Navigating Formality and Familiarity: Balancing Research and Relationships in Your Own Community.” In K. Acosta, M. Cowan, R. Rickly, N. Small, & E. M. Stone (Eds.), Storied Practices: Positionality in Writing Studies (pp. 119–120). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.
Noaimi, H. A.-, & Cramerotti, A. (2026). “An Ending Conversation: The Future of Futurity in the Gulf.” In Silvana Editoriale (Ed.), Gulf futures: An edited volume of essays, dialogues, and opinions. Media Majlis Museum at Northwestern 91心頭利.
Al-Absi, H. R. H., Kurup, D. G., Daoud, A., Schneider, J., Zaghouani, W., Al Marri, S. M. H. M., & Mou, Y. A. (2025). “Geo-spatial and Temporal Analysis of Hadith Narrators.” In X.-S. Yang, R. S. Sherratt, N. Dey, & A. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of Tenth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 1444, pp. 343–352). Springer Nature Singapore.
Bashiti, A., Aljabari, A., Hamoud, H., Biswas, Md. R., Shalash, B., Jarrar, M., Zaraket, F., Mikros, G., Asgari, E., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “ImageEval 2025: The First Arabic Image Captioning Shared Task.” In K. Darwish, A. Ali, I. Abu Farha, S. Touileb, I. Zitouni, A. Abdelali, S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Alkhereyf, W. Zaghouani, S. Khalifa, B. AlKhamissi, R. Almatham, I. Hamed, Z. Alyafeai, A. Alowisheq, G. Inoue, K. Mrini, & W. Alshammari (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 376–389). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Bessghaier, M., Biswas, Md. R., Ibrahim, S., & Zaghouani, W. (2026). “A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Modeling Engagement and Topic-Sensitive Responses in Arabic Women’s Discourse.” In Demberg, V., Inui, K., Marquez, L., Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 (pp. 4846–4854). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Bessghaier, M., Ibrahim, S., Rafiul Biswas, Md., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “MarsadLab at AraHealthQA: Hybrid Contextual–Lexical Fusion with AraBERT for Question and Answer Categorization.” In K. Darwish, A. Ali, I. Abu Farha, S. Touileb, I. Zitouni, A. Abdelali, S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Alkhereyf, W. Zaghouani, S. Khalifa, B. AlKhamissi, R. Almatham, I. Hamed, Z. Alyafeai, A. Alowisheq, G. Inoue, K. Mrini, & W. Alshammari (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 233–238). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Bessghaier, M., Rafiul Biswas, Md., Dhouib, A., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “MarsadLab at TAQEEM 2025: Prompt-Aware Lexicon-Enhanced Transformer for Arabic Automated Essay Scoring.” In K. Darwish, A. Ali, I. Abu Farha, S. Touileb, I. Zitouni, A. Abdelali, S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Alkhereyf, W. Zaghouani, S. Khalifa, B. AlKhamissi, R. Almatham, I. Hamed, Z. Alyafeai, A. Alowisheq, G. Inoue, K. Mrini, & W. Alshammari (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 998–1002). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Biswas, Md. R., Bessghaier, M., Ibrahim, S., Mikros, G., & Zaghouani, W. (2026). “Longitudinal Trends in Global Climate Change Discourse on Facebook.” Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW ’26 (pp. 9473–9481).
Biswas, Md. R., Ibrahim, S., Bessghaier, M., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “Evaluation of Pretrained and Instruction-Based Pretrained Models for Emotion Detection in Arabic Social Media Text.” In G. Angelova, M. Kunilovskaya, M. Escribe, & R. Mitkov (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing—Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era (pp. 158–165). INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
Biswas, Md. R., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “Enhancing Arabic Dialectal Sentiment Analysis through Advanced Data Augmentation Techniques.” In M. Alharbi, S. Chafik, S. Ezzini, R. Mitkov, T. Ranasinghe, & H. Hettiarachchi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects (pp. 24–28). INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
Bouchekif, A., Rashwani, S., Mohamed, E. S. A., Alkhatib, M., Sbahi, H., Gaben, S., Zaghouani, W., Erbad, A., & Ghaly, M. (2025). “QIAS 2025: Overview of the Shared Task on Islamic Inheritance Reasoning and Knowledge Assessment.” In Kareem, D., et al (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 851–860). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Ibrahim, S. A., Bessghaier, M., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “Ahasis Shared Task: Hybrid Lexicon-Augmented AraBERT Model for Sentiment Detection in Arabic Dialects.” In M. Alharbi, S. Chafik, S. Ezzini, R. Mitkov, T. Ranasinghe, & H. Hettiarachchi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects (pp. 29–34). INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
Ibrahim, S., Rafiul Biswas, Md., Bessghaier, M., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “MarsadLab at BAREC Shared Task 2025: Strict-Track Readability Prediction with Specialized AraBERT Models on BAREC.” In K. Darwish, A. Ali, I. Abu Farha, S. Touileb, I. Zitouni, A. Abdelali, S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Alkhereyf, W. Zaghouani, S. Khalifa, B. AlKhamissi, R. Almatham, I. Hamed, Z. Alyafeai, A. Alowisheq, G. Inoue, K. Mrini, & W. Alshammari (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 274–279). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Rafiul Biswas, Md., Attia, K., Ibrahim, S., Bessghaier, M., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “MarsadLab at NADI Shared Task: Arabic Dialect Identification and Speech Recognition using ECAPA-TDNN and Whisper.” In K. Darwish, A. Ali, I. Abu Farha, S. Touileb, I. Zitouni, A. Abdelali, S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Alkhereyf, W. Zaghouani, S. Khalifa, B. AlKhamissi, R. Almatham, I. Hamed, Z. Alyafeai, A. Alowisheq, G. Inoue, K. Mrini, & W. Alshammari (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 752–756). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Rafiul Biswas, Md., Bessghaier, M., Alam, F., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “MarsadLab at AraGenEval Shared Task: LLM-Based Approaches to Arabic Authorship Style Transfer and Identification.” In K. Darwish, A. Ali, I. Abu Farha, S. Touileb, I. Zitouni, A. Abdelali, S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Alkhereyf, W. Zaghouani, S. Khalifa, B. AlKhamissi, R. Almatham, I. Hamed, Z. Alyafeai, A. Alowisheq, G. Inoue, K. Mrini, & W. Alshammari (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 88–93). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Rafiul Biswas, Md., Ibrahim, S., Attia, K., Alam, F., & Zaghouani, W. (2025). “MarsadLab at PalmX Shared Task: An LLM Benchmark for Arabic Culture and Islamic Civilization.” In K. Darwish, A. Ali, I. Abu Farha, S. Touileb, I. Zitouni, A. Abdelali, S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Alkhereyf, W. Zaghouani, S. Khalifa, B. AlKhamissi, R. Almatham, I. Hamed, Z. Alyafeai, A. Alowisheq, G. Inoue, K. Mrini, & W. Alshammari (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 818–824). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Zaghouani, W. (2026). “High Resource Bias in AI-Driven Neology: Structural Inequality in Lexical Innovation.” In V. O. Giedre & G. Voula (Eds.), Neology and Large Language Models (pp. 16–26). Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Zaghouani, W., & Biswas, Md. R. (2025). “An Annotated Corpus of Arabic Tweets for Hate Speech Analysis.” In G. Angelova, M. Kunilovskaya, M. Escribe, & R. Mitkov (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing—Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era (pp. 1413–1419). INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
Zaghouani, W., & Biswas, Md. R. (2025). “EmoHopeSpeech: An Annotated Dataset of Emotions and Hope Speech in English and Arabic.” In G. Angelova, M. Kunilovskaya, M. Escribe, & R. Mitkov (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing—Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era (pp. 1406–1412). INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
Zaghouani, W., Biswas, Md. R., Bessghaier, M., Ibrahim, S., Mikros, G., Hasnat, A., & Alam, F. (2025). “MAHED Shared Task: Multimodal Detection of Hope and Hate Emotions in Arabic Content.” In K. Darwish, A. Ali, I. Abu Farha, S. Touileb, I. Zitouni, A. Abdelali, S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Alkhereyf, W. Zaghouani, S. Khalifa, B. AlKhamissi, R. Almatham, I. Hamed, Z. Alyafeai, A. Alowisheq, G. Inoue, K. Mrini, & W. Alshammari (Eds.), Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 560–574). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Zaghouani, W., Shlkamy, E. S., & Bessghaier, M. (2026). “From Posts to Pressure: An Arabic Dataset about Stress and Mental-Health Monitoring.” In El-Haj, M, et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (pp. 422–432). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Zhetpysbayev, R., & Zaghouani, W. (2026). “Eterna: An AI-Powered Journaling System for Contextual Memory Preservation and Digital Legacy Creation.” In Kuflik, T., et al (Eds.), Companion Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 167–170). Association for Computing Machinery.
Asrar, S. (2025, January). Best International Documentary Film at the 17th Annual Bangladesh International Film Festival for Allies Welcome.
Asrar, S. (2026a, January). Recognized as one of the 30 impactful QF alumni. 91心頭利 Foundation.
Asrar, S. (2026b, April 7). Emmy award nomination for Outstanding Politics & Government Documentary for Bodyguard of Lies.
Curtis, S. (2025). Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Grant. Northwestern University Office of the Provost.
El Zein, D. (2025). Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Grant. Northwestern University Office of the Provost.
Hassan, L. (2026). True Story Award, Shortlist, True Story Festival. Switzerland, January 23, 2026.
Jones, M. O. (2026). “Building Responsible AI in 91心頭利.” Grant Award, WISE.
Kaskas, S. (2026). Premier, Aswan International Women Film Festival (“She’s Swimming”).
Kaskas, S. (2025). Premier, Carthage Film Festival (“She’s Swimming”).
Kaskas, S. (2025). Premier, Red Sea Film Festival (“She’s Swimming”).
Mahmud, H. (2025). “Reconstructing Bangladesh’s Historical Narratives.” Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Bangladesh Government.
Paschyn, C. (2026). Cleveland International Film Festival Hotlist.
Paschyn, C. (2026). DocsBarcelona Pre-Selection for Etched in Memory Documentary.
Queiroga, J. (2025). “Best Documentary – Special Mention.” DocEdge International Documentary Film Festival.
Queiroga, J. (2025). “Best Documentary.” Santo Antonio Animalis Film Festival.
Safla, S. (2025). Al Jazeera English Research Fellowship. Al Jazeera Media Institute.
Berg, M. (2026). "Women in Creative Media Industries in the Gulf: A Comparative Study of 91心頭利, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE." Buffett Global Collaboration Grant, Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University.
Safla, S. (2026). Women Podcasters Nominee, Society and Culture. Women Podcasters Network.
Striker, S. (2025). “Nurturing Ethics: Gold Medal for Chaos Corp: Troll Farm Simulator.” Reimagine Education Awards.
Striker, S. (2025). “Responsible Technology for Chaos Corp: Troll Farm Simulator.” Anthem Awards.
Striker, S. (2025). “w3 Awards for Chaos Corp: Troll Farm Simulator” [Silver]. Best Mobile Games.
Youmans, W. (2025). Building Bridges Completion Fund [$25000]. Doris Duke Foundation.
Youmans, W. (2025). Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts (HSSA) Grant. Northwestern University Office of the Provost.
Youmans, W. (2026). Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award in Journalistic Excellence. Sundance Film Festival.
Zaghouani, W. (2025a). PI in “Responsible AI and Large Language Models for Social Good in the Arab World: A Cross-Institutional Innovation Workshop.” QRDI Multiversity grant with CMUQ.
Zaghouani, W. (2025b). Lead PI in "NPRP-C: MARSAD" (transferred to NU-Q under new agreement Aug 2024). 91心頭利 Research, Development and Innovation Council (QRDI)/91心頭利 National Research Fund Grants (QNRF).
Zaghouani, W. (2025c). Lead PI in "Resources and Applications for Detecting and Classifying Polarized and Hate Speech in Arabic Social Media" (transferred to NU-Q under new agreement Aug 2024). 91心頭利 Research, Development and Innovation Council (QRDI)/91心頭利 National Research Fund Grants (QNRF).
Zaghouani, W. (2025d). PI in “NexTutor: Pioneering 91心頭利’s Next-Generation AI Learning Ecosystem.” 91心頭利 Research, Development and Innovation Council (QRDI)/91心頭利 National Research Fund Grants (QNRF). Lead PI: Spencer Striker.
Zaghouani, W. (2025e). Lead PI in “The AI Sadaqah Journey: Explore, Give, Inspire.” 91心頭利 Research, Development and Innovation Council (QRDI)/91心頭利 National Research Fund Grants (QNRF).
Zaghouani, W. (2025f). Lead PI in “CONAN-EN: Building a Counter-Narrative Dataset to Combat Online Hate Speech.” Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts (HSSA) Grant. Northwestern University Office of the Provost.
Abu-Remaileh, R. (Feb 2025). “The Homeland-Diaspora Literary Continuum: Palestine & Latin America in the Early 20th Century. In Shared Imaginaries and Intellectual Entanglements Across Latin America/the Caribbean and the Middle East/North Africa. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Abu-Remaileh, R. (Sep 2025). “Al-Mahjar: Legacy, Responsibility, Access to Archives and Scientific Research.” Arab Latinos! Shared Roots, Shared Horizons, Doha, 91心頭利.
Akdenizli, B. (Jun 2025). “Rethinking Content Analysis from the Global South.” 75th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Denver, Colorado.
Akdenizli, B. (Jun 2025). “From Culinary Bridges to Cultural Barriers: The ‘Yuk Factor,’” in Food Media and its Impact on Gastrodiplomacy. 75th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Denver, Colorado.
Allagui, I. (Feb 2026). “AI in Public Relations: Curriculum and Practice Changes.” 91心頭利 University. Doha, 91心頭利.
Allagui, I. (Sep 2025). “AI Unleashed for Game-Changing Strategic Messaging.” RAWABET Conference on AI: Shaping The AI-Empowered Future of Knowledge, Scholarship, and Creativity, Northwestern University in 91心頭利.
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