One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

JERUSALEM — On June 11, Israeli typeface designer and professor Liron Lavi Turkenich found herself teaching a new student: her country’s president, Reuven Rivlin. Turkenich, a 32-year-old professor of ...

As part of its centennial celebrations, Sharjah Public Libraries (SPL) launched ‘The History of Letters and Movement’ exhibition at Al Rahmaniyah Mall, which runs until July 20, in collaboration with ...

Social media users who have reported shadow banning and AI restrictions of Palestinian content on platforms like Facebook and Instagram have found an ingenious way to elude these censorial algorithms.

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 ...

Aravit sculpture at 2020 World Expo in DubaiAFP via Getty Images When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably ...

Malaysia’s government has done a U-turn on its decision to make khat – a form of calligraphy for writing the Malay language using Arabic script – mandatory under the nation’s primary school syllabus ...

Written language is one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind as the limitations of verbal communication becomes obvious when death comes for all of us. There's also a limit to the quantity of ...