NakbaNLP Program

[mustaf...@gmail.com]

Dear all,

It is our great pleasure to share with you the  program of the NakbaNLP Workshop,

 which will take place the day after tomorrow (May 11, 14:00–18:00 GMT+2) at LREC in Palma de Mallorca (hybrid format).

We warmly invite you to join us.

- Mustafa

14:00 - 14:05	Opening Session: Welcome by Workshop Chairs
14:05 - 14:45	Keynote: The Tech for Palestine Initiative Paul Biggar
14:45 - 15:25	Session 1: Nakba Narratives and Resources Chair: Serin Atiani The NakbaEcho Dataset: From Oral Testimonies to a Transcribed Arabic History Corpus. Batool Najeh Balah, Mahmoud Fawzi, Houda Elmimouni and Walid Magdy. Mining the Pre-1948 Palestinian Press: Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction and Temporal Discourse Analysis from Five Historical Arabic Newspapers. Basel Barakat and Nizam Barakat. Nakba Discourse 2025: A Bilingual Social Media Dataset for Collective Trauma Analysis. Wajdi Zaghouani, Mabrouka Bessghaier and Kais Attia.
15:25 - 16:00	Session 2: Nakba Information Extraction and AI Modeling Chair: Mo El-Haj ChronoLearn: A GRAG LLM-Based System for Structuring and Exploring Nakba Narratives. Mohammad O. ALADDASI, Shahd L. Abu Hijleh and Omar Qawasmeh Tarikhi: Arabic Temporal Information Extraction From Arabic Historical Documents. Qusay Abdo, Serin Atiani, Tariq Sraiji and Adnan Saeed Credibility Assessment for Arabic News on the Gaza War A Hybrid Neural Symbolic Pipeline. Sanaa Abril, Sihame Mouanid, El habib Ben lahmar and Omar Zahour
16:00 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 17:00	Session 3: Shared Tasks Papers. Chair: Shadi Abudalfa StanceNakba Shared Task: Actor and Topic-Aware Stance Detection in Public Discourse. Kholoud K. Aldous, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mabrouka Bessghaier, Kais Attia, Shimaa Ibrahim, Wajdi Zaghouani The NakbaArchiveClassifier Shared Task on Nakba Image Classification. Alexei Abrahams, Shadi Abudalfa, Mustafa Jarrar, George Mikros The NakbaVirality Shared Task on MultimodalVirality Prediction in High-Stakes Discourse. Saad Ezzini, Salima Lamsiyah, Shadi Abudalfa, Samir El-Amrany, Walid Alsafadi NAKBA NLP 2026: Shared Task on Arabic Handwritten Manuscript Understanding (Palestine Memory–Omar Al-Saleh Memoir). Fadi Zaraket, Bilal Shalash, Hadi Hamoud, Ahmad Chamseddine, Firas Ben Abid, Mustafa Jarrar, Chadi Abou Chakra, Bernard Ghanem
17:00 - 17:50	Panel Discussion:                                     NLP: Reconstructing narratives about the ongoing Nakba. Panel Chair: Khalil Sima’an Panelists: Kareem Darwish, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Hanine Shehadeh, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE Jamila J. Ghaddar, ArchivesLab.org Rama Salahat, 7amleh Center, Palestine
17:50 - 18:00	Closing

[Walid Magdy]

Thanks a lot Mustafa for sharing this very interesting programme of the highly needed Nakba workshop.

We had the honour of having one of the papers down there (The first one in the programme), NakbaEcho, which is the full text transcription of the Nakba Archive recorded testimonies, which includes over 2000 hours of interviews with Palestinian people who lived the Nakba before and during 1948. This transcribed text of this valuable dataset should enable a much deeper analysis to these many testimonies allowing researchers around the world to analyse the Palestinian testimonies around Nabka on a large scale, hopefully leading to more papers on the topic next year inshaAllah.

Also, I would like to share our other paper in the PoliticalNLP workshop at LREC, which is about Palestine as well. The paper "From Cairo to Cape Town: How African Twitter Shapes the Global Palestine-Israel Narrative” analyses how African countries reacts to the Palestine struggle. 

Thanks again Mustafa for your effort and the team's organising the Nakba workshop. Hopefully, one day “Nakba" will be history, and inshaAllah you organise “Auda” workshop in Palestine once all Palestinian return back to their stolen land.

Walid

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