Most of us learned the alphabet using simple mnemonic devices — “A” was for apple, “B” for ball, and so on. A new Android app from the Islamic State has a different set of mnemonics in mind. Released ...

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

10 facts about Arabic. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Arabic with audio.

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 ...

Most people speak the colloquial version, but rely on the classical for clarification Dubai: Arabic, the official language of the UAE, is also the language of the Quran. It is categorised into three ...

Graphic designers often hope to express the power of communication through their work, but not many attack the project as literally as the Lebanese designer Rana Abou Rjeily does. She has created ...