A Hebrew-speaker should be able to read the bottom half or the words, and an Arabic-speaker should be able to read the top half. For example, the Aravrit word for “peace” would say “salaam ...

In the late 19th century, Javal discovered that people can decipher words in the Latin alphabet by seeing only the top half of the letters. Lavi Turkenich did her own research and found that ...

TEL AVIV — Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise.Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a stylized ...

This will include 28 characters in the Arabic alphabet and 22 in the Hebrew alphabet. ICANN hopes the new policy will make the world wide web more accessible to billions of people worldwide.

Before he again commits himself to print, a study of some elementary work on the history of the alphabet, as well as some acquaintance with Hebrew and Arabic, would be advisable. The Unicorn: a ...