New AI model enables native speakers and foreign learners to read undiacritized Arabic texts with greater fluency

Scientists report that they have developed a new machine-learning system designed to overcome challenges encountered in ...
The Hoya

The Art of Arabic Script

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 ...
The Verge

Hello world: meet قلب, a programming language based on Arabic script

In the Arab world, aspiring programmers are faced with a unique kind of challenge: nearly every computer language, platform, and standard in history has been built around a Latin character set — a set ...
The Next Web

Yamli: type Arabic without an Arabic Keyboard

Yamli, which means dictate in Arabic, is a tool that allows you to type in Arabic script without using an Arabic keyboard. An updated version of the popular Smart Keyboard, has just been released. The ...
Hyperallergic

A Designer Fuses Arabic and Hebrew to Create a New Script

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 ...
Hindustan Times

The dispute over script still endures among Sindhis

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 ...
The Guardian

Turkey switches from Arabic script to the Latin alphabet – archive, 1928

On 1 November 1928, a new Turkish alphabet law was passed making making the use of Latin letters compulsory in all public communications and the education system 11 July 1928 A new alphabet for ...