As part of its efforts to make the internet more accessible for those who use other languages besides English, Google has just unveiled a new tool which can automatically translate Roman-character ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every month or so, computer scientist Ramsey Nasser gets a desperate email from the Arabic world, or sometimes China, or Russia, ...

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 ...

BEIRUT: Some people take years learning the intricacies of the Arabic script, at times so ornate it can be difficult to decipher. Others are dedicated to designing a simple Arabic font that can be ...

Celebrated for centuries as a privileged medium of artistic expression across and beyond the Islamic world, Arabic calligraphy offers art historians a captivating score composed of fluid forms and ...

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 ...

Shreya Parikh, a doctoral scholar studying sociology talks about the use of Arabic and Persian words in spoken Gujarati language highlighting a dialect of Gujarati language that uses Arabic script.

Every month or so, computer scientist Ramsey Nasser gets a desperate email from the Arabic world, or sometimes China, or Russia, asking for his help. They want to know more about Qlb — pronounced ...