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WAM reported that it would be the only UNESCO Chair of its kind worldwide. The university said the initiative will focus on preserving Arab cultural and linguistic heritage and expanding access to it.","Planned work includes digitising archives and endangered Arabic dialects, developing multilingual metadata standards, researching the intersection of AI and the humanities, and producing open-access resources. 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