--- title: "Yasir Zaki — author profile and papers" description: "Yasir Zaki, New York University Abu Dhabi: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasir-zaki/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasir-zaki/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yasir Zaki # Yasir Zaki Yasir Zaki has 3 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Nouar AlDahoul](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouar-aldahoul/). 3 papers in our library · 2025 current affiliation [New York University Abu Dhabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; [New York University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/), New York, United States [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5018129441) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8078-6944) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5018129441) · [167 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018129441) · [1 710 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018129441&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasir-zaki/#papers) · [13 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasir-zaki/cited-by/) · 3 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4942](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4942) 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=Yasir+Zaki) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yasir+Zaki) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yasir+Zaki) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yasir+Zaki) ## Affiliations - [New York University Abu Dhabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/) · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates —current · 2013–2026 on 91 papers - [New York University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · New York, United States —current · 2019–2026 on 11 papers - [University of Bremen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bremen/) · Bremen, Germany —2008–2017 on 25 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Reasoning 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Legal AI 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Vision & language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasir-zaki/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Benchmarking the Legal Reasoning of LLMs in Arabic Islamic Inheritance Cases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aldahoul-2025-benchmarking-legal-reasoning-llms-arabic/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* Dividing an estate under Islamic inheritance law (Ilm al-Mawārīth) means applying a dense set of fixed rules: deciding who inherits, who is excluded, and what fraction each heir gets. 2. **[Detecting Hope, Hate, and Emotion in Arabic Textual Speech and Multi-modal Memes Using Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aldahoul-2025-detecting-hope-hate-emotion-arabic/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* The paper addresses automatic moderation of Arabic online content, where dialect variety and scarce resources make detection hard. 3. **[Benchmarking the Medical Understanding and Reasoning of Large Language Models in Arabic Healthcare Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aldahoul-2025-benchmarking-medical-understanding-reasoning-large/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* The paper asks how well current large language models handle medical questions written in Modern Standard Arabic, a setting with far fewer benchmarks than English. ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Nouar AlDahoul](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouar-aldahoul/) ×3 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasir-zaki/cited-by/).