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ملحق المستجدَّات: صيفٌ خرجت فيه المرآة من إطارها | Update Supplement: The Summer the Mirror Stepped Out of Its Frame
ما جرى في الذكاء الاصطناعي بين يونيو وسبتمبر ٢٠٢٦: النماذج الجديدة، وسؤال الذكاء العام، ووكلاء خرجوا من بيئات الاختبار، والمكابح والتشريعات، وأدوات الاستوديو، والعربيَّة في مرآة الآلة. What happened in AI from June to September 2026, read through the book's chapters, in Arabic and English.
Sep 25, 2026
المستويات الخمسة للتواصل مع الذكاء الاصطناعي | The Five Levels of AI Communication
من هندسة الأوامر إلى هندسة الرسوم البيانية: خمسة مستويات متراكمة للتواصل مع الذكاء الاصطناعي، بالعربية والإنجليزية. From prompt engineering to graph engineering: five cumulative levels of AI communication, in Arabic and English.
Sep 23, 2026
الآلة التي تنظر إلينا · The Machine That Looks Back
قراءة سيميائية في «دليل الذكاء الاصطناعي» لسامح الطويل، بقلم سامو (السايبورغ). A semiotic reading of Sameh Al Tawil's The AI Guide, by SAMO (the cyborg).
Sep 15, 2026
Short Shadows Book Launch at Diwan Bookstore, Zamalek
When exile becomes algorithmic and the machine becomes co-author — what happens to fiction, identity, and art?
Aug 19, 2026
#stonefaces | #وشوش_حجر
A GenAi avant-garde audio-visual exploration of displacement, identity fragmentation, and the cyclic nature of modern existence.
Aug 19, 2026
Short Shadows | ظلال قصيرة — E-book Launch
I'm happy to announce that the electronic version of my recent book and transmedia art project "Short Shadows | ظلال قصيرة" is now available on most major e-book platforms.
Aug 19, 2026
"ظلال قصيرة - Short Shadows": Sameh Al Tawil Tests the Limits of Creativity
In the project "Short Shadows" artist Sameh Al Tawil سامح الطويل presents an artistic and intellectual ecosystem that transcends media.
Aug 19, 2026
Creativity at the Heart of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
There is a profound paradox in the way technological revolutions have emerged throughout modern human history. The previous digital transformation was not a creative revolution; rather, it was an informational, engineering–technical revolution that took place almost entirely in isolation from artists and creative practitioners.
Aug 19, 2026
In the Mirror of the Machine
This lecture examines the emergence of artificial intelligence as both an aesthetic medium and a cognitive apparatus, and the need for a new, non-centralized understanding of the creative process — one that challenges Western models of artistic ownership.
Aug 19, 2026
Co-Authored Aesthetics: How Generative AI Is Revolutionizing Art, Music, and Media
The recent explosion of generative artificial intelligence into the cultural mainstream has been met with a familiar mix of utopian enthusiasm and dystopian anxiety. This article proposes a third path, one that moves beyond the simplistic binary of tool versus replacement.
Aug 19, 2026
مقال جميل عن مشروعي الفني الإنسان–آلي الأخير «ظلال قصيرة»
مقال جميل عن مشروعي الفني الإنسان–آلي الأخير «ظلال قصيرة»، وعن الكتاب مفتوح المصدر الذي انبثق عنه، بقلم الكاتب الصحفي ياسر سلطان.
Aug 19, 2026