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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Arabic alphabet does not use upper or lowercase letters as in the Latin alphabet. However, the shape of each letter depends on its position in a word—initial, medial, and final.

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 ...