Research Article
Towards Digital Arabic Criticism: A Contemporary Vision of Literary Criticism in the Digital Age
Moussa Omar*
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2026
Pages:
1-8
Received:
24 November 2025
Accepted:
4 December 2025
Published:
4 June 2026
Abstract: This study examines the transformation of literary criticism in the context of contemporary digital and cultural change, with particular emphasis on the Arabic critical field. It investigates how digital technologies, interactive media, and artificial intelligence have challenged traditional critical concepts such as text, authorship, reading, interpretation, and aesthetic judgment. The article aims to clarify the theoretical shifts produced by digitization and to propose a contemporary vision for Arabic literary criticism that remains attentive to both technological innovation and cultural specificity. Methodologically, the study adopts a multi-layered approach that combines historical analysis, critical interpretation, and comparative synthesis. It draws on major contributions in digital humanities, reception theory, computational criticism, and modern Arabic criticism in order to trace the evolution of key concepts and assess their relevance in the digital age. The analysis focuses on how emerging digital environments have redefined the relationships among text, reader, and critic, while also creating new possibilities for large-scale literary analysis, participatory reading, and algorithm-assisted interpretation. The study argues that digital criticism should not replace established humanistic approaches, but rather expand them through methodological pluralism. It concludes that the future of Arabic literary criticism depends on integrating close reading with computational methods, developing Arabic-specific digital tools, and maintaining critical awareness of ethical issues such as bias, representation, and cultural marginalization. In this sense, digital Arabic criticism must balance innovation with tradition in order to produce more comprehensive and context-sensitive critical practices.
Abstract: This study examines the transformation of literary criticism in the context of contemporary digital and cultural change, with particular emphasis on the Arabic critical field. It investigates how digital technologies, interactive media, and artificial intelligence have challenged traditional critical concepts such as text, authorship, reading, inte...
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Research Article
Collective Trauma and Historical Grief in African Contexts
Oscar Stuta*
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2026
Pages:
9-16
Received:
23 March 2026
Accepted:
9 April 2026
Published:
22 July 2026
DOI:
10.11648/j.allc.20261101.12
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Abstract: Collective trauma and historical grief in African contexts are rooted in prolonged exposure to systemic violence, including slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and postcolonial structural inequalities. Unlike individualized trauma frameworks dominant in Western psychology, African experiences of trauma are deeply embedded in collective memory, relational disruption, and intergenerational transmission. In many African communities, elders speak of suffering not as an event but as a season that never fully ended. Stories of land taken, children lost, languages silenced, and ancestors unsettled circulate quietly in homes, songs, and proverbs. These memories are rarely organized as formal history, yet they shape how people understand authority, danger, and belonging. This chapter begins from the premise that Africa’s collective trauma is not episodic but cumulative, layered across centuries of disruption. To understand global mental health today, we must begin here—where trauma became structural, historical, and intergenerational.
Abstract: Collective trauma and historical grief in African contexts are rooted in prolonged exposure to systemic violence, including slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and postcolonial structural inequalities. Unlike individualized trauma frameworks dominant in Western psychology, African experiences of trauma are deeply embedded in collective memory, relatio...
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