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 ...

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.

“Those letters were very difficult to read even if you were educated in Arabic,” Abdoulaye said. “You could hardly make out what was written.” So, in 1990, the brothers started coming up ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Arabic letter “ba” is shown with a picture of a gun, “dal” with a tank, “ta” with a bullet, “sad” with a rocket and “sin” with a sword, among other weapons.

The letter sent to the Langley Islamic Centre also makes reference to the 2019 mosque attacks in ... while 88 is code for "Heil Hitler" as the letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.

Using Latin letters in Arabic is not a new phenomenon, they remarked. The idea was championed at the turn of the 20th century, with some scholars calling for the adoption of a modified version of the ...

A final draft of the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet -- with 29 letters and an apostrophe to denote a hard sign, specific sounds, or intonations -- was presented in 2019. Kazakhstan is set to complete ...

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 ...

Further, the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, had marked homes and businesses owned by Christians with a red, painted ن (pronounced “noon”), the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet and ...