arabic

Where Latin and Arabic Meet: A Bridging of Two Alphabets

Wonderful piece from The New Yorker on Lebanese designer Rana Abou Rjeily's creation of Mirsaal, a typeface family expressly designed to work in both the Latin and Arabic alphabets. In Mirsaal, the ca...

READ MORE | 30 Jun 2011

Babylonian, dead for millennia, now online

The sound of the ancient Babylonian language has been brought back to life thanks to Cambridge academic, Martin Worthington. His website speechisfire.com hosts some 30 audio files of this&nb...

READ MORE | 8 Oct 2010

'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live

The world wide web took an historic step forward today as the first non-Latin web addresses went live, according to the BBC. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to...

READ MORE | 6 May 2010

Poetry Translation Centre

Stumbled upon the web site of the highly commendable, Poetry Translation Centre. The idea of the PTC is to translate contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America to a high literary standard...

READ MORE | 15 Mar 2010

Gaining in translation

Interesting story from the UAE National newspaper on the role of Arabic translator Humphrey Davies in helping to bring contemporary works of Arabic literature to a western audience. The article goes o...

READ MORE | 10 Mar 2010