Yehia Moldan transforms Arabic letters into abstract geometric tattoos, creating a language that maps his journey from Gaza ...

The term “Republic of Letters” is used by historians to refer to an international elite of scholars in the late 17th and early 18th centuries who pursued independent research and kept in touch with ...

At the Grey Gallery, it’s as if you’re inhabiting the artist’s own brush as it hesitates between writing and drawing. By Will Heinrich There’s something thrilling about the extreme flexibility of the ...

Objects—everything from cars, birds, and faces to letters of the alphabet—look significantly different to people familiar with them, a new study suggests. Using the Arabic alphabet as a frame of ...

Typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a stylized writing system that merges the two ancient alphabets into a single giant one. TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach ...

A recent article on the website, Seforim Blog, compares the phonetics of biblical Hebrew and Arabic. In the post, the author, Rabbi Avi Grossman, remarks that he “cannot fathom” why the letter ayin (ע ...

Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet. The scripts they’d been using to read and write their native Fulani, an African language spoken by at least 40 ...

When I walked into Arabic class last week, Karam, my teacher, cheerily asked me how I was doing. I said, “Tamaam, hamdulillah,” which means, “Fine, thanks be to God.” But I was lying. I’d just spent a ...