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 ...
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 ...
“Because I have the passion for Arabic calligraphy, I feel that there is a relationship between myself and the letters. When I can’t write something, the letters are sad, because for a long time I did ...
A 400-year-old Arabic letter unearthed in Sudan has confirmed the existence of King Qasqash, a ruler previously considered ...
Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Arabic and to the culture of Arabic-speaking regions. This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least one ...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise. Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a ...
I first encountered the work of the British traveller, archeologist, and spy Gertrude Bell many years ago, while hunting in the archives for a Carmelite priest named Père Anastase-Marie de Saint-Élie, ...