AI al-Bashir
BBC News, AI: Voice cloning tech emerges in Sudan civil war, 5 Oct 2023 “A campaign using artificial intelligence to impersonate Omar al-Bashir, the former leader of Sudan, has...
AI Fatwas
Mohamed Mahmoud Habib, Islamicity, Fatwa in the Age of AI, 5 Oct 2023 “The past decade has witnessed astonishing developments in the field of artificial intelligence and its widespread...
Digital British Islam Archive
The first phase of the Digital British Islam archive is now live. I also wrote an article on the National Movements collection. This is a work in progress, which...
Research: Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia
For my Reading List: Poole, E., Giraud, E. H., Richardson, J. E., & de Quincey, E. (2023). Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case...
Indonesia TikTok Shop Shut
Joan Aurelia Rumengan,Rest of World, Millions of sellers stranded as TikTok Shop shutters in Indonesia, 4 Oct 2023 “The Indonesian government’s move to protect small businesses in the country...
Arabic AI
Aimee Look, CNN, Arabic AI could help open doors for other languages, 4 Oct 2023. “ Although ChatGPT, Meta’s LLaMA and other LLMs have Arabic-language capabilities, they were mostly...
Rural Middle East Music and Tech
Hassan Hassan, New Lines Magazine, How Rural Music in the Middle East Bypassed Cultural Gatekeepers Using Tech and Weddings, 4 Oct 2023. “The music’s detractors, like Syrian actors who...