AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Understanding Hate in Arabic Memes

arXiv:2607.27393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hateful memes are a growing form of multimodal online harm, where hostile intent is often conveyed through the joint interpretation of images, text, cultural references, and implicit targets. While hateful meme detection has advanced in high-resource languages, Arabic remains underexplored, with existing meme resources focusing mainly on propaganda or coarse harmful-content labels. We introduce AHA-Memes (Arabic HAteful Memes), which is, to our kno...