Among the many stories resurfacing in the wake of this historical moment is that of Judeo-Syrian Arabic, a nearly extinct dialect central to Aleppo and Damascus's Jewish communities. Judeo-Syrian ...

Somaya Sallam’s kindergarten class clapped, danced and spun their tiny bodies to a tune sung entirely in Arabic. In this classroom at Bellevue’s Ardmore Elementary, where 40 minutes of every ...

An angry mob in Pakistan accused a woman who wore a dress adorned with Arabic calligraphy of blasphemy, after mistaking them for Quran verses. She was saved by police who escorted her to safety ...

Good Arabic fonts “were hard to access”, often limited in weights ... “Nastaliq is amongst the most fluid calligraphy styles and has a natural slant to its proportions,” adds the type designer. “The ...