Mohammed Tarazi Wins 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for ‘Muted Microphone’ https://arablit.org/2024/12/11/mohammed-tarazi-wins-2024-naguib-mahfouz-medal-for-muted-microphone/ #literature #Arabic
Mohammed Tarazi Wins 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for ‘Muted Microphone’ https://arablit.org/2024/12/11/mohammed-tarazi-wins-2024-naguib-mahfouz-medal-for-muted-microphone/ #literature #Arabic
Billboards have been put up all over the West Bank reading in #Arabic, “There is no future in Palestine.”
The movement behind the signs are is the “Fight for Life” #settlers movement, who explain that this is a move to encourage Palestinian emigration from the #WestBank.
This week Ali Elfilali introduced AraGen Benchmark and Leaderboard, a new benchmark and leaderboard for #Arabic #LLMs focused on Generative Tasks.
Link to the leaderboard:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/inceptionai/AraGen-Leaderboard
Link to the blogpost with more details:
https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-3c3h-aragen
Contact: alielfilali0909@gmail.com
On the new #Arabic language program in a Bellevue (#Seattle-area) public school, with video of the kindergarten class <3 https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/families-asked-for-an-arabic-program-this-bellevue-school-listened/ #education
This protestor’s sign in #Suwayda, shared on Twitter by a #Kurdish journalist from #Syria, pays tribute to Hevrin Khalaf in #Arabic. Khalaf was brutally murdered by a Turkish-backed Syrian rebel group during the 2019 Turkish invasion of northern Syria. These protestors, in other words, are protesting foreign-backed/sectarian/ #Islamist militarized rebels as well as #Assad, rebuking the former for claiming their anti-regime cause. It’s a dangerous and courageous position to take publicly
After turning up here a couple of weeks or so ago, I figured it's time for an #introduction
I'm a full stack web developer, currently working mostly with #php (#laravel) and Vanilla #javascript and #scss. Still love #cfml too.
Outside of that, my main interests are around #infosec, #fintech, and just learning new stuff.
Husband, father of 2 boys, speaker of #German and #english with some basic understanding of #Arabic
Started running my own instance just for fun, and loving it. #mastoadmin