Dr. Salwa Alinat-Abed is a historian and researcher, serving as a teaching coordinator in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies at the Open University of Israel. She earned her PhD from the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of La Laguna, Spain. Her research interests encompass the political and social history of the Middle East, gender and political activism among Arab women in Israel, and the sociological analysis of children’s literature.
In her role at the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Hub, Dr. Alinat-Abed is leading an innovative research project titled "Between the Manifest Text and the Hidden Intention: Religious Authority and Artificial Intelligence." This study employs computational methodologies, such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), alongside qualitative analysis to investigate digital religious authority and the "epistemological rupture" occurring in the interaction between humans and machine-generated fatwas.