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June 19, 2026 12 min read

Writing Arabic in English

How I built a phonetic Arabic keyboard that maps English keys to Arabic sounds, and the problems I had to solve to get there: a cursive script, throat letters, hamza, and diacritics.
June 17, 2026 8 min read

The Arabic alphabet, the Egyptian way

The 28 letters, but with the sounds you will actually hear on the street in Cairo, where ج is a hard G, ق quietly disappears, and ث is almost never a "th".