Objects—everything from cars, birds, and faces to letters of the alphabet—look significantly different to people familiar with them, a new study suggests. Using the Arabic alphabet as a frame of ...

Though detaching the Arabic letters from their script may initially strike some as Westernizing an Eastern alphabet, Mirsaal also notably “orientalizes the West”: Rjeily plays with the weights ...

But the letters retain the religious associations of scripture for the Egyptian artist Omar el-Nagdi, particularly alif, a sharp vertical stroke like a lightning bolt that starts the alphabet and ...

But unlike Arabic, whose short vowels are written as diacritical marks above and below letters, the script assigned its five vowels proper letters.

The Arabic alphabet does not use upper or lowercase letters as in the Latin alphabet. However, the shape of each letter depends on its position in a word—initial, medial, and final.

The rich 28-letter Arabic alphabet is still missing some other letters that can be found in both Hebrew and English, such as “g”. You may, as a result, be wondering how there can be a majority ...

Hebrew and Arabic letters will now feature in domain names following a decision allowing non-Latin characters in Internet addresses.

Isis has reportedly created an app to help children learn Arabic – using jihadist songs and pictures of tanks, guns and rockets.

Arabic Alphabet Snap is another playful way to help learners practice recognising letters in different positions (initial, medial, final), and connecting letters to form words, a bit like the ...

The Organization of Turkic States has agreed to adopt a common Latin alphabet, but it remains a sensitive topic in Kyrgyzstan, the only member state that has not decided to make the switch.