Mirsaal consists of Arabic regular and bold and Latin regular and bold. I first conceived this typeface for the sole purpose of the book, which is to introduce Arabic.

Based on this insight, Turkenich combined each of the 22 letters in Hebrew with each of the 29 in Arabic to create an Aravrit alphabet with 638 characters.

Arabic can be a bridge to learning other languages. Knowing the Arabic alphabet can jump start the study of Persian (Farsi), Urdu, and the languages of Afghanistan. Even languages such as Turkish, ...

Arabic has an alphabet, so it’s easier than, say, Chinese, which has a set of thousands of characters. There are just 28 letters, and it does not take long to get used to writing and reading ...

Jilali Gharbaoui’s “Composition,” from 1969. His paintings, like those of Cherkaoui, are inspired not by Arabic itself but by the North African Tifinagh alphabet. Barjeel Art Foundation ...

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 ...

The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters rather than 26, and it uses completely different characters—some of which, including the first character of Bin Laden’s first name, do not have directly ...

Maltese alphabet for Arabic Sooner or later Arabic will have to evolve into the Latin script due to progress in information technology and cellular telephony. In fact, many Arabs send their SMS in ...