The lab enters the 2026 conference season with seven accepted papers at LREC 2026, co-organization of the StanceNakba 2026 shared task, the Program Chair role at PoliticalNLP 2026, and an accepted Web Conference 2026 paper on longitudinal global climate discourse on Facebook.

Recent 2026 outputs include the Findings of EACL paper on multi-task learning for Arabic women's discourse, the AraStress dataset paper at AbjadNLP 2026, and the IUI 2026 Companion paper Eterna on AI-powered journaling and digital legacy creation. The lab also mentored two Social Good teams on bias, fairness, and culturally responsible Arabic NLP at the Second Arabic NLP School 2026 in Rabat.

MARSAD was featured at Web Summit Qatar 2026 through the talk Inside MARSAD: AI for Understanding the Arab Digital Sphere and the session Beyond the Blank Page, highlighting Arabic AI, public communication, and AI-assisted writing. The lab also delivered a panel presentation on AI and radio at World Radio Day 2026 at the Ministry of Information Theatre in Muscat, Oman.

The lab released the MARSAD preprint on real-time social media analysis and co-authored the WISE research and policy report Fortifying Education in the Age of Disinformation, extending its impact across AI, public discourse, and education policy. The lab also participated in the ME Council Workshop on Hybrid Threats in the Information Space, co-hosted by the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and the Embassy of Poland in Qatar.

The lab co-organized major ArabicNLP 2025 shared-task initiatives at EMNLP 2025, including ImageEval, MAHED, and QIAS, advancing Arabic image captioning, multimodal hope and hate detection, and Islamic inheritance reasoning benchmarks. The lab also contributed to the WISE 12 global education summit panel on culturally aware AI, and introduced MARSAD as a teaching and research tool at an NU-Q AIM Lab lecture attended by more than 50 researchers and students.

The lab contributed multiple RANLP 2025 papers on emotion detection, hope speech, hate speech, and dialect sentiment, and co-organized the CLEF 2025 CheckThat! Lab Task 1 on subjectivity in news articles. The HopeEmo bilingual corpus was also presented at CMC-Corpora 2025 in Bayreuth. Additionally, the lab moderated a high-level AI ethics panel on language, culture, and bias in large language models at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

The lab contributed expert commentary on AI hallucinations and mitigation strategies to The Peninsula Qatar, extending public engagement around responsible and trustworthy AI development.

Two ICWSM 2025 papers highlight the lab's work on Arabic social media analysis: ThatiAR for subjectivity detection in Arabic news sentences and a dataset-driven study of digital polarization on hijab discourse.

The lab was featured in an NU-Q Views article on the growing number of Arabic large language models in the GCC, with expert commentary on digital sovereignty, cultural grounding, and the future of Arabic AI development.

The lab presented MARSAD and Arabic AI at Web Summit Qatar 2025 through three separate talks spanning Arabic NLP, AI-mediated communication, and the NU-Q AI² R&D Initiative. The lab also contributed to policy engagement through the HBKU Workshop on the Index of Social Cohesion in Doha (January 2025), bringing social-media analytics into a national policy discussion attended by around 40–50 participants from academia, government, and international organisations.

The lab contributed the session Enhancing Online Safety and Wellbeing through AI: The Power of NLP and LLMs at the 25th International Web Information Systems Engineering Conference in Qatar.

The lab was active in major 2024 shared-task initiatives at ACL 2024 in Bangkok, including ArAIEval on propagandistic techniques detection, FIGNEWS on news media narratives, and ArabicNLU 2024, attracting over 100 registered teams across the tasks.