Listening to Syria with Alia Malek | BULAQ | بولاق

[ #Podcast 06/02/2025]: «Listening to Syria with Alia Malek»
#Contemporary #Arabic #Literature #Translation
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"data is basically shackling you. It represents a history, and when you represent your model based on that history, you're stuck with that data. But if you want a different kind of world.., how are you going to model it..? So this is really.. a fundamental limitation of all data-driven approaches."

"Learn some Liguistics. [..] it really will help you see the world in a different way. It will help you do better error analysis. [..], because then you have something to target. If you approach language as a bunch of noise to start with, the noise is really is in you. It's not in the language."👏👏👏

"Arabic and Technology: A 40-Year Perspective", @nyhabash.bsky.social keynote speech at the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026), in Rabat: underline.io/lecture/1483...

¿Quién protege jurídicamente a las personas que inspiran una autoficción? La nueva película de Almodóvar, ‘Amarga Navidad’, trata el fenómeno de la autoficción y qué sucede cuando alguien inspira una historia pero no desea aparecer en ella.

La nueva película de Almodóvar, ‘Amarga Navidad’, trata el fenómeno de la autoficción y qué sucede cuando alguien inspira una historia pero no desea aparecer en ella.

El nuevo volumen de la colección educativa “Hacer Memoria”, impulsada por la Secretaría de Estado de Memoria Democrática: "El cuento de la #reconquista", de Julio Escalona (IH-CSIC)." www.cchs.csic.es/es/article/c...

Metaphors of rupture, legitimization, and renewal in post-Assad Syrian leadership discourse This study examines the first 11 Arabic leadership speeches of Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former jihadist insurgent who became Syria’s transitional president after ousting Bashar al-Assad in 2024. Drawin...

Research Article
Rania Al-Sabbagh: Metaphors of rupture, legitimization, and renewal in post-Assad Syrian leadership discourse
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En #Córdoba te esperamos en "Siete mujeres hablan de al-Ándalus" organizado con la Fundación al-Babtain y la Universidad de Córdoba. Redescubre la historia andalusí en cuestiones como la presencia femenina en el zoco o la experiencia de la maternidad. 🤱Más info https://tinyurl.com/29p89fnq

table of contents of the cluster "Life Narrative and the Digital" 1. "Life Narrative and the Digital: Outlining the Contours of an Emerging Field" by Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer, pages LDi-LDxi. 2. "Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19" by Sanita Reinsone, Ilze Laksa-Timinska, Haralds Matulis, and Elvira Žvarte, pages LD1-LD34. 3. "The Evolution of Arabic Self-Expression in the Western Mediterranean: Using an Annotation Schema as a Comparative Framework" by Laila M. Jreis-Navarro, pages LD35-LD58. 4. "Finding Aids and Networked Biography: Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" by Katherine Parsons, pages LD59-LD86. 5. "The Digital Life Narrative of a Romanian Transgender Microcelebrity through the Lens of Networked Publics" by Alexandra Cotoc and Anamaria Radu, pages LD87-LD109. 6. "About Disputed Existences: Dys4ia's Conflicted Status between Game and Autobiography" by Felix Tenhaef, pages LD110-LD140. 7. "Narration Through Data: The Life and Relationships of a Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Merchant" by Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Alessia Spadi, and Federica Spinelli, pages LD141-LD164. 8. "'To Bring Them into Dialog': A Conversation about Life Narrative and the Digital" by Caitriona Ní Dhúill, Anna Spitzbart, Christian Wachter, Florian Windhager, and Sandra Mayer, pages LD165-LD183.

2 years after our #DigitalBio2023" conference, we're excited to see the complete cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" now online in the #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting:
ejlw.eu/announcement...

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🏁Comienza el ciclo de #conferencias:
"Siete mujeres hablan de al-Ándalus":
📅 Del 18 de marzo al 17 de junio.
📍Organizado por @casaarabe.bsky.social + la Cátedra de Estudios Árabes de la Fundación al-Babtain y la @uco.es.
📌 casaarabe.es/eventos-arab...

📢 #CFP

📘 La autoexpresión en la península ibérica premoderna y temprano-moderna
👤 Laila M. Jreis-Navarro (ed.) @ljreis.bsky.social 

Plazos:
⏰ 11 de mayo (propuestas: título, resumen, bio)
⏰ 15 de febrero de 2027 (manuscritos)

Más información:
🔗 tinyurl.com/3yd7ywtu

#AESLA #AESLA_publicaciones

📢¡CFP para volumen colectivo editado por @ljreis.bsky.social sobre la autoexpresión en la península ibérica premoderna y temprano-moderna!
🗓️Fecha límite 11 de mayo para propuestas de contribuciones
ℹ️Toda la info en: eventos.unizar.es/go/CFPautoexpresion

📢[#CFP]: La autoexpresión en la península ibérica premoderna y temprano-moderna: géneros prosísticos y voces autoriales.
Ed. Laila M. Jreis-Navarro (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Fecha límite de envío de propuestas de contribución: 11 de mayo de 2026

Info.: eventos.unizar.es/go/CFPautoex...

La experiencia espacial en las riḥla-s de Ibn Ḫaldūn y ʿOmar Paṭōn: un estudio comparativo e interlingüístico a través de los verbos de movimiento | Al-Qanṭara Abdulrahim, Dana, “GO constructions in Modern Standard Arabic. A Corpus-based study”, Constructions and Frames, 11, 1 (2019), pp. 1-42.

‼️[Publicación]: mi último artículo en la revista Al-Qantara del CSIC: "La experiencia espacial en las riḥla-s de Ibn Ḫaldūn y ʿOmar Paṭōn: un estudio comparativo e interlingüístico a través de los verbos de movimiento" #RelatosDeViajes #Aljamiado doi.org/10.3989/alqa...

Language in times of crisis and uprising:

This brand-new, two-volume collection edited by Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni and Cristine Severo addresses the #sociolinguistics of #protesting from different geopolitical perspectives:

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/sopro-b/html

ليل أعبره وحدي Challenging social constructs

#بودكاست عيب : «ليل أعبره وحدي» - وفاء خيري
Podcast Eib - @Sowt_media : #Arabic #Egypt #women #fear #night www.sowt.com/ar/episodes/...

Speculum | Vol 101, No 1

"Speculations: The Centennial Issue", Speculum, 101:1 (2026) #MedievalStudies @chicagojournals.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/2026...

"Paving the road to hell: The Spanish word #menas as a case study" (Bordonaba & Torices, 2021) doi.org/10.6018/daim...

Idées / أفكار | [Falsafa] Averroès et la Renaissance arabe : la philosophie en débat À l’occasion des 900 ans de la naissance d’Averroès (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198), l’Institut du monde arabe dédie l’édition 2025-2026 de Falsafa, les RDV de la philosophie arabe à cette figure majeure de...

#Podcast - Ideés - [Falsafa] Averroès et la Renaissance arabe : la philosophie en débate #alAndalus #Filosofía #árabe ima-idees.transistor.fm/episodes/fal...

A sunset view of the Puente de Piedra (Stone Bridge) spanning a river in Zaragoza, Spain, with the towering spires and domes of the Basilica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar visible on the far bank under a dramatic orange and yellow sky.

🏆 And the EU Access City Award 2026 goes to… Zaragoza, Spain!

Congratulations for making streets, transport, housing, and digital services fully accessible, improving life for everyone.

You are leading the way in building a barrier-free Europe!

More: europa.eu/!F3jQCB

El Libro del Brocado. Bagdad a principios del siglo X: amor, amistad, refinamiento - Editorial Verbum al-Waššaʾ Traducción, estudio e índices de Teresa Garulo El Libro del Brocado, o Bagdad a principios del siglo X: Amor, amistad, refinamiento, es obra del gramático al-Waššaʾ (m. 936) y uno de los l...

"El Libro del Brocado. Bagdad a principios del siglo X: amor, amistad, refinamiento" de al-Waššāʼ (trad. Garulo; nueva edición en Verbum) editorialverbum.es/libro/el-lib...

"El miedo al gobernante y el miedo a Dios", de Maribel Fierro en la revista de divulgación @andalusylahistoria.bsky.social #emociones #EstudiosMedievales —>
www.alandalusylahistoria.com?p=5509

A Syrian Masterclass in the Art of Being Human Ten months and six days after the sudden fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his regime, DoppelHouse Press released Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution, the eyewitness chronicles of nurse-turned-frontline-war-reporter Hadi Abdullah, ably translated by Alessandro Columbu.

A Syrian Masterclass in the Art of Being Human

Ten months and six days after the sudden fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his regime, DoppelHouse Press released Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution, the eyewitness chronicles of nurse-turned-frontline-war-reporter Hadi Abdullah,…

"With this new mindset, [...] I am less drained at the end of the day, and my mind is freer now that I have taken away this imaginary power I gave to other people."

Arabic AI Ascendant: A New Wave of Culturally-Aware Models and Foundational Data Latest 50 papers on arabic: Oct. 13, 2025

"The future of #Arabic #AI is not just being translated; it’s being written in its own script."
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¡Santo cielo!

Bring us your LLMs: why peer review is good for AI models Deepseek’s R1 model has been peer reviewed. Others should follow the firm’s example.

Deepseek’s R1 model has been peer reviewed. Others should follow the firm’s example

go.nature.com/468GIko

Intercultural Communication – Now in the 3rd edition In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Loy Lising speaks with Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her best-selling textbook Intercultural Communication (…

In the latest edition of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Loy Lising chats with Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her popular textbook "Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction" @edinburghup.bsky.social
www.languageonthemove.com/intercultura...

Realmente bello lo que han hecho 😭

Characterizing Asymmetries in the TenTen Corpus Family Membership: An Implicit Hierarchy in Multilingual Digital Tools In this work, we examine the limitations of digital tools in facilitating cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research from a humanistic perspective. Our primary objective is to draw comparisons betwe...

“Characterizing Asymmetries in the TenTen #Corpus Family Membership: An Implicit Hierarchy in #Multilingual #Digital Tools”, by @ljreis.bsky.social and David Bordonaba (members of IFEL), is now available at Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/1...