Nakba-NLP 2026 Shared Tasks – Call for Participants

[Shadi Abudalfa]

Subject: Nakba-NLP 2026 Shared Tasks – Call for Participants

Dear Researchers,

Please be informed that the second edition of the Nakba-NLP Workshop will host five shared tasks aimed at advancing NLP research. Each shared task is coordinated by a dedicated organizing team, operating independently from the main workshop organizers.

We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate in one or more of the following shared tasks:

1) NakbaVirality: Multimodal and Textual Virality Prediction in High-Stakes Discourse
Organizers: Saad Ezzini, Salima Lamsiyah, Shadi Abudalfa, Samir El-Amrany, Walid Alsafadi
More information: https://ezzini.github.io/NakbaVirality/

2) NakbaArchiveClassifier: Nakba Image Classification
Organizers: Alexei Abrahams, Shadi Abudalfa, Mustafa Jarrar, George Mikros
More information: https://nakba-nlp-2026.pillarofsalt.net/

3) StanceNakba: Actor- and Topic-Aware Stance Detection in Public Discourse
Organizers: Kholoud K. Aldous, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mabrouka Bessghaier, Kais Attia, Shimaa Ibrahim, Wajdi Zaghouani
More information: https://marsadlab.github.io/stancenakba/

4) NakbaFakeNewsDetection: Fake News Detection
Organizers: Mohamed Ibrahim Ragab, Ensaf Mohamed, Walaa Medhat
More information: https://mohamedibrahim1708.github.io/fake-news-detection/

5) AR-MS: Arabic Manuscript Understanding
Organizers: Fadi Zaraket, Bilal Shalash, Hadi Hamoud, Ahmad Chamseddine, Firas Ben Abid, Mustafa Jarrar, Chadi Abou Chakra, Bernard Ghanem
More information: https://acrps.ai/nakba-nlp-manu-understanding-2026

We look forward to your participation and to the innovative contributions that will help advance NLP research in this important domain.

Kind regards,
Nakba-NLP 2026

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Shadi I. Abudalfa

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

SDAIA-KFUPM JRC for Artificial Intelligence

http://www.linkedin.com/in/shadiabudalfa

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