--- title: "Ammar Mohanna — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ammar Mohanna, American University of Beirut: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ammar-mohanna/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ammar-mohanna/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ammar Mohanna # Ammar Mohanna Ammar Mohanna has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/); often with [Mohamad Bilal Zbib](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-bilal-zbib/), [Bernard Ghanem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernard-ghanem/), [Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hasan-abed-al-kader-hammoud/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5048867203) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7622-317X) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5048867203) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048867203) · [35 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048867203&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ammar-mohanna/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ammar-mohanna/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10875](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/109/#star-10875) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Ammar+Mohanna) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ammar+Mohanna) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ammar+Mohanna) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ammar+Mohanna) ## Affiliations [🎓**American University of Beirut** Beirut · Lebanon 2025–2026 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/american-university-of-beirut/) · [🎓**University of Genoa** Genoa · Italy 2021–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-genoa/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ammar-mohanna/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AraLingBench: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zbib-2026-aralingbench-human-annotated-benchmark-evaluating/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Arabic LLM evaluation has focused mostly on factual knowledge and problem solving, through suites such as ArabicMMLU, EXAMS, BALSAM and 3LM. 2. **[Arabic Safety Alignment as Selective Refusal: An Empirical Study of SFT, DPO, and Guard Calibration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zbib-2026-arabic-safety-alignment-selective-refusal/)** *(2026)* The paper asks how to make Arabic-capable LLMs refuse harmful requests without also refusing benign but sensitive questions about news, medicine, law, or policy. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mohamad Bilal Zbib](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-bilal-zbib/) ×2 - [Bernard Ghanem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernard-ghanem/) - [Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hasan-abed-al-kader-hammoud/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/abjadnlp/): [Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/abjadnlp/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ammar-mohanna/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026