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?

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.

The imam put his foot in it. It was in 1985 in the Boorhaanol mosque in Bo-Kaap and he delivered his sermon in English. It immediately drew bitter recrimination as the older congregants of this mosque ...

A three-day cultural program celebrating World Arabic Language Day opened Sunday at the National Museum of Egyptian ...

In the Arabic-speaking world, 48 million people connect via the Web. Yet very little content is written in Arabic. Now, there's new technology that is revolutionizing the way Arabic-speaking people ...

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 ...

The keyboard mirrors the layout used by Arabizi, an informal system that uses English letters and numbers to represent Arabic ...