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 ...

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 ...

Using the Arabic alphabet as a frame of reference, Johns Hopkins University researchers studied how experts in the language and novices viewed various letters and found clear evidence that visual ...

Non Latin Letters (Ç, Ş, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ü) 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 ...

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 ...

“Those letters were very difficult to read even if you were educated in Arabic,” Abdoulaye said. “You could hardly make out what was written.” So, in 1990, the brothers started coming up ...

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 ...