This association between Arabic scripts and particular kinds of texts is an interesting one. It is not so dissimilar from the early years of printing with Latin types, when certain writing hands and ...

As calligraphy undergoes a 21st-century renaissance, devotees are putting in the time to learn the ancient kufic art. Kufic calligraphy students learn their first letters of the ancient script at the ...

Yamli, which means dictate in Arabic, is a tool that allows you to type in Arabic script without using an Arabic keyboard. An updated version of the popular Smart Keyboard, has just been released. The ...

Could Good Type Design Promote Literacy In The Middle East? Nadine Chahine talks about her PhD work using eye-tracking to test how children read Arabic script. The research could lead to new insights ...

A group of Sindhi speakers in Mumbai has started a campaign to promote the Perso-Arabic script for their language. Sindhi is a branch of Indo-Iraninian like Hindi and Punjabi, but unlike the others ...

Al-Rashidi studied the intricacies of Arabic calligraphy at Madinah’s King Abdul Aziz University for four years under the supervision of notable calligraphy professors. Practiced for hundreds of years ...

Yamli, which means dictate in Arabic, is a tool that allows you to type in Arabic script without using an Arabic keyboard. An updated version of the popular Smart Keyboard, has just been released. The ...