Full-page manuscript PDFs and DOCX transcriptions from the Omar Al-Saleh memoir collection (1951–1965), part of the NAKBA NLP 2026: Arabic Manuscript Understanding Shared Task.

PDFs

Original scanned manuscript pages organized by year: 1951.pdf through 1965.pdf, plus special volumes.

DOCX

Expert transcriptions matching the PDFs, organized by year: 1951.docx through 1965.docx, plus variants.

Structure

pdfs/          # Scanned manuscript pages
docx/          # Transcriptions

Source

Handwritten Arabic memoirs by Omar Al-Saleh spanning 16 documents (~1.6M words, ~6,395 pages). The collection covers political and social events in the Arab world during 1951–1965.

Usage

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Download a specific PDF
path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="U4RASD/omar-al-saleh-manuscripts-full",
    filename="pdfs/1958.pdf",
    repo_type="dataset",
)

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the NAKBA NLP 2026 shared task:

@inproceedings{nakbanlp-ar-ms,
  title     = {NAKBA NLP 2026: Shared Task on Arabic Handwritten Manuscript Understanding (Palestine Memory–Omar Al-Saleh Memoir)},
  author    = {Hamoud, Hadi and Chamseddine, Ahmad Ali and Shalash, Bilal and
               Abid, Firas Ben and Jarrar, Mustafa and Chakra, Chadi Abou and
               Ghanem, Bernard and Zaraket, Fadi A.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (Nakba-NLP 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)},
  year      = {2026},
  address   = {Palma, Mallorca, Spain},
  month     = {May}
}

Contact

ar-ms@dohainstitute.edu.qa, hhamoud@dohainstitute.edu.qa

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