Category Archives: Arabic

Shubbak: London’s Summer of Arabic Arts

By admin | Published: 1 July 2011
Artwork by Noureddine Daifallah London has a sizeable Arabic population, and a few areas of high density (the area around Edgware Road is the best known, with a long established Arabic community). So it’s surprising to find out that the Shubbak festival this month is London’s first ever Arabic arts festival. The festival of contemporary [...]
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Arabic transliteration: what’s in a name?

By admin | Published: 28 February 2011
The eagle-eyed following events in Libya will have noticed that not all news sources agree on how to spell the name of the man who has ruled there for 40 years. Go to the BBC and you will see Muammar Gaddafi mentioned. The New York Times calls him Muammar el-Qaddafi. CNN or Forbes will tell [...]
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Arabic typesetting: fonts of wisdom

By admin | Published: 5 August 2010
Arabic is the official language of 26 countries, the first language of nearly 300 million people and a second language of nearly 280 million more. Our studio often find themselves working away on several Arabic typesetting projects at any given time. Given this expertise, I've been reflecting on the broader history, my pick of professional Arabic fonts and how the field is developing.
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Fertile Desert: Arabic short stories from the UAE

By admin | Published: 28 August 2009
Browsing the internet, I came across an interesting book review of “In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates”. As the title implies, this is a collection of short stories from the Arabian Gulf, specifically the UAE, translated into English. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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Do you tweet basic Arabic?

By admin | Published: 27 August 2009
A language school based in Dubai are planning to make use of Twitter to bring basic Arabic language to a worldwide audience. Followers of the Eton Institute will get a daily lesson, containing an English transliteration of an Arabic phrase. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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Is Arabic translation of credit crunch a spending spree?

By admin | Published: 4 November 2008
I’ve mentioned before that I am a big fan of Charlton Athletic football club and the past few weeks have been a real rollercoaster for us fans. For a while I thought my separate worlds of football and Arabic translation would be brought together as Dubai based Zabeel Investments made an “indicative offer” to buy [...]
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