@inproceedings{zbeeb-mohanna-2026-arabic,
    title = "{A}rabic Safety Alignment as Selective Refusal: An Empirical Study of {SFT}, {DPO}, and Guard Calibration",
    author = "Zbeeb, Mohammad  and
      Mohanna, Ammar",
    editor = "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad  and
      Elsayed, Tamer  and
      Bouamor, Houda  and
      El-Beltagy, Samhaa  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Abdelali, Ahmed  and
      Elmadany, AbdelRahim  and
      El Mekki, Abdellah  and
      Darwish, Kareem  and
      Alkhereyf, Sakhar  and
      Luqman, Hamzah  and
      Khalifa, Salam  and
      Magdy, Samar  and
      Alyafeai, Zaid  and
      Hamed, Injy  and
      Zaghouani, Wajdi  and
      Zitouni, Imed",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of The Fourth {A}rabic Natural Language Processing Conference",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.17/",
    pages = "228--246",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-473-6"
}