Writer at Sahihly
Writer at Sahihly, covering academic integrity and how universities actually handle AI — and what a student needs to know before submitting work.
The entire uproar over Substack's new Pangram detector has played out in English. No one has asked the obvious question: what actually happens when it reads Arabic?
Most Arabic AI detectors advertise one flat accuracy number for every text. That number hides real gaps between Modern Standard Arabic, dialect, and bilingual writers.
There's no single Arab university policy on AI writing — just three common patterns. Here's how to find which one applies to you before you submit
