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 ...

Centuries later, Indonesian artist Faisal Kamandobat is reviving that lost script to retell the colonial past. The Pegon Arabic script was widely used to write different languages across the ...

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 ...

Arabic script remains one of the most widely employed writing systems in the world, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. Focusing on naskh, the style most commonly used across the Middle East, ...

One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...

DUBAI: Practiced for hundreds of years, Arabic calligraphy is being acknowledged on a grand scale in 2020. Saudi Arabia has declared 2020 as the Year of Arabic Calligraphy, and UNESCO has registered ...

Use of Roman script to replace the writing system of Sindhi language in Arabic script for a selected group of non-Sindhi readers has started to draw attention of some Sindhi linguists and writers. The ...

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 ...

Over the past few years trade mark protection in the Middle East has become more attractive to brand owners worldwide. And with increasing demand for more comprehensive trade mark protection, it has ...