Though detaching the Arabic letters from their script may initially strike some as Westernizing an Eastern alphabet, Mirsaal also notably “orientalizes the West”: Rjeily plays with the weights ...

Non Latin Letters (Ç, Ş, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ü) Turkish used to be written with the Arabic alphabet from about 900 to 1928. In order to increase literacy in the country and to modernize Turkey, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late 19th century, Javal discovered that people can decipher words in the Latin alphabet by seeing only the top half of the letters. Lavi Turkenich did her own research and found that ...

There’s something thrilling about the extreme flexibility of the Arabic alphabet. ... by the Egyptian artist Omar el-Nagdi from 1970 shares its form with the first letter of the Arabic alphabet.

Vowels are used as needed for legibility — below the Hebrew letters and above the Arabic ones, per the languages’ respective rules. Turkenich tested the Hebrew elements on herself and her friends.