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Hosted at the Nile University in Egypt, the “Living in a Digital Age: Technology and its Effects on Culture and Society” conference was organized by Dr. Eid Mohamed, Dr. Yasmin Amin, and Dr. Ahmed Abd-Elsalam from the Nile University and the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) on March 11-13, 2023. The conference examined how the present cultural, … More Living in a Digital Age: Technology and its Effects on Culture and Society

Call for Presentations and Papers: Storytelling in Immersive Media 7 July, 2023 at the British Library, London MIX 2023, the biennial conference on where and how creative writing and emerging technologies meet, will be co-hosted by Bath Spa University and the British Library. It will coincide with the British Library’s Digital Storytelling exhibition of digital literature and … More MIX 2023 Storytelling in Immersive Media

The CFP for ELO 2023 in Coimbra has officially been extended till January 31! ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION 2023 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MEDIA ARTS SHOW OVERCOMING DIVIDES: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE JULY 12-15, 2023 – COIMBRA, PORTUGAL Deadline January 31 (CFP: updated January 20, 2023) Join us this summer for four days of digital art … More EXTENDED CFP: ELO 2023 Coimbra (Jan 31; July 12-15, 2023)

A Special Issue for the Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (Brill) The field of Cultural Analytics (CA) studies massive amounts of cultural data (books, images, newspapers, literature, etc.) in order to derive culturally-relevant insights from them. It applies various methods and techniques (natural language processing, network analysis, visualization, and data mining) to cultural components in … More From Data to Knowledge: Mapping Arab/Islamicate Studies through Cultural Analytics

Reception of modern Arabic literature from the 19th century to the 21st century is the topic of a forthcoming conference that will be held on October 5-7, 2022 at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. This conference is funded by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) and organized by Christian Junge (Marburg), Susanne Abou Ghaida, … More Who Reads Modern Arabic Literature, How and Why? A Conference CFP

The Electronic Literature Collection vol. 4 has recently been launched including 132 literary works from 42 author nationalities in 31 languages. Among these works, four works in Arabic are featured. Two of them first appeared in the Arabic language and were written by Arab writers: A dictionary of the revolution by Amira Hanafi and Prison … More The ELC4 has been launched with Four Works in the Arabic Language

Al-Barrah by Reham Hosny and Mohamed A. Nasef is the first Arabic e-lit piece to win the Robert Coover Award’s Honorable Mention. The Electronic Literature Organization announced, on the first of June, 2022 in Como, Italy, that the Robert Coover Award went to ReRites by David Jhave Johnston, the runner up was Travesty Generator by … More For the First Time, The Robert Coover Award’s Honorable Mention Goes to an Arabic E-Lit Work

The ELO has recently announced the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors, one of them being the digital artist and e-lit scholar Reham Hosny. By electing her as a board member, Hosny is considered the first Arab and African to win this seat. Dr. Reham Hosny is an Assistant Professor in … More The ELO elects the First Arab and African Board Member in its History

The Centre for Digital Humanities University of Lagos (CEDHUL), Nigeria, and Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco are organizing the first African Electronic Literature Alliance international workshop conference (AELAIWC 2021). In an online/in-person workshop and lectures format and under the title “Digital Tools & Hypertext Praxis in African Digital Literature,” AELAIWC 2021 will “train and … More The African E-Lit Conference in Nigeria and Morocco Commences on the 22nd of November