Al-Unsur Arbatash (Element 14)

العنصر 14 (Al-Unsur Arbatash, Element 14) is an Arabic language channel about computing.

The idea for this channel stems from our desire to start an initiative that explains the computer technology we use in a simplified manner accessible to a wide audience and in Arabic. The channel is also a contribution to enriching Arabic scientific content on the Web, focusing on the field of information technology. Through videos published biweekly, the channel offers scientific information about computer technologies and concepts with which we interact on a daily basis in a fun and engaging manner.

The name العنصر 14 (Al-Unsur Arbatash, Element 14) is a reference to the semiconductor element silicon (atomic number 14). Silicon is a crucial element in the manufacturing of electronics such as integrated circuits and transistors, which, in turn, were crucial in bringing on the computer age. Because of its importance to the computer age, many places bear its name, including this channel.

Our Team

Abdalghani Abujabal is a research scientist in the Natural Language Understanding group at Amazon - Alexa AI. His research interests include question answering (QA), conversational QA and named entity recognition. Abdalghani graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza (Palestine) in 2011 and obtained his master's degree in 2015 and PhD in 2018 from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany).
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Mohamed Yahya is a Research Scientist in the AI Group at Bloomberg. He is broadly interested in natural language processing and information retrieval. His research interests include semantic parsing, question answering, auto-completion and information extraction. Mohamed graduated from Birzeit University (Palestine) in 2008 and obtained his master's degree in 2010 and PhD in 2016 from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany). He previously worked for Siemens and Google.
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Contact Us

We are happy to hear from you! In case you have any comments on any of our episodes, or if you want to request an episode on a particular topic, kindly leave a comment on our videos or on any of our social media pages. Your public comments will allow others to interact and vote for your suggestions, which further helps in enriching the Arabic scientific content on the Web.

If you have any other inquiries or suggestions, or if you would like to support or collaborate with us, please email us at yahya.mohamed -at- gmail -dot- com or ajabal.4 -at- gmail -dot- com.

Please note that we work on Element 14 as a side project, so we kindly ask you to excuse any delay in getting back to you.

- The team