Everyone has unfortunately heard of at least one ridiculous argument used against Palestinians: since no letter in Arabic makes the “p” sound, Palestinians couldn’t pronounce “Palestine”, proving ...

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

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 ...

Typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a stylized writing system that merges the two ancient alphabets into a single giant one. TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — 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 ...

Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet. The scripts they’d been using to read and write their native Fulani, an African language spoken by at least 40 ...

Objects—everything from cars, birds, and faces to letters of the alphabet—look significantly different to people familiar with them, a new study suggests. Using the Arabic alphabet as a frame of ...

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 ...