Writing in the Long War Journal, analyst Caleb Weiss said the app includes a jihadist nasheed (Islamic song) to learn the alphabet and games using “militaristic vocabulary”.

How the Arabic Alphabet Inspired Abstract Art At the Grey Gallery, it’s as if you’re inhabiting the artist’s own brush as it hesitates between writing and drawing. Share full article ...

The alphabet was included in Unicode 9.0, which was published this summer, but technology companies haven’t leapt at the chance to use it in apps and keyboards.

The name came from the idea that this font has a mission to simplify Arabic and make it understandable to non-Arabic speakers. The original name of the typeface was Jameel, which means ...