Mahmoud Fawzi

PhD Student

University of Edinburgh

Interests

Misinformation, Digital Religion, Social Media

Publications

• "God says we are right!": The Interplay between Religion and Propaganda on Arabic Social Media

  Mahmoud Fawzi, Björn Ross, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2026

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• Silencing & Surging: A Layered Ecology of Algorithmic Repression and Resistance in the Gaza Escalations

  Houda Elmimouni, Sarah Rüller, Yarden Skop, Norah Abokhodair, Konstantin Aal, Tashfia Fatema, Mahmoud Fawzi, Ghadeer Awwad, Walid Magdy, Volker Wulf, Peter Tolmie

  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2026

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• Fabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media

  Mahmoud Fawzi, Björn Ross, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'26) · 2026

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• From Cairo to Cape Town: How African Twitter Shapes the Global Palestine-Israel Narrative

  Mahmoud Fawzi, Houda Elmimouni, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP 2026) · 2026

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• The NakbaEcho Dataset: From Oral Testimonies to a Transcribed Arabic History Corpus

  Batool Najeh Balah, Mahmoud Fawzi, Houda Elmimouni, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (NakbaNLP 2026) · 2026

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• IslamicEval 2025: The First Shared Task of Capturing LLMs Hallucination in Islamic Content

  Hamdy Mubarak, Rana Malhas, Watheq Mansour, Abubakr Mohamed, Mahmoud Fawzi, Majd Hawsaly, Tamer Elsayed, Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference · 2025

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• 'The Prophet said so!': On Exploring Hadith Presence on Arabic Social Media

  Mahmoud Fawzi, Walid Magdy, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'25) · 2025

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• "Pinocchio had a Nose, You have a Network!": On Characterizing Fake News Spreaders on Arabic Social Media

  Mahmoud Fawzi, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'24) · 2024

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