10 facts about Arabic. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Arabic with audio. Get started with 20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of useful phrases from ...
Typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a stylized writing system that merges the two ancient alphabets into a single giant one. TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach ...
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At the Grey Gallery, it’s as if you’re inhabiting the artist’s own brush as it hesitates between writing and drawing. By Will Heinrich There’s something thrilling about the extreme flexibility of the ...
Turkish used to be written with the Arabic alphabet from about 900 to 1928. In order to increase literacy in the country and to modernize Turkey, the Latin alphabet was introduced and adopted after ...
When I walked into Arabic class last week, Karam, my teacher, cheerily asked me how I was doing. I said, “Tamaam, hamdulillah,” which means, “Fine, thanks be to God.” But I was lying. I’d just spent a ...
Slate says “Osama.” The FBI says “Usama.” Should we call the whole thing off? No! As most everyone knows, the Arabic alphabet differs from the Latin alphabet. The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters rather ...
The subject of this essay is the alphabetization project of Daniel Willard Fiske (1831–1904). Fiske's project would allow the Egyptians to adopt a new alphabet based on the Latin one, and to adopt ...
24 February 2007Arabic Calligraphy Art Show Runs Until February 2870 Works Of 21 Calligraphers From Nine Countries On Display The UAE Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, Mr. Abdul ...