In Lebanon, an Arabic language festival encourages children to learn the Arabic alphabet Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read. The ...

By the mid-1990s, the brothers could walk into a market in a new part of Guinea and see people they’d never met reading and writing their alphabet.

Arabic speakers might need a little time to get used to Mirsaal, but after reading a few lines the reading becomes natural. Mirsaal’s letters are simple yet still strongly connected to existing ...

Aravrit’s letters can be combined to form words or sentences. A Hebrew-speaker should be able to read the bottom half or the words, and an Arabic-speaker should be able to read the top half.

For Alhamwi, teaching her daughter to read Arabic was not only an exercise in literacy, but cultural exploration and preservation. “Language is our identity,” says Alhamwi. “It’s our culture.

Arabic names can be transliterated into English in many different ways because the letters of the Arabic alphabet don’t necessarily have direct English equivalents. For example, the Arabic name “حسين” ...

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 ...