Every month or so, computer scientist Ramsey Nasser gets a desperate email from the Arabic world, or sometimes China, or Russia, asking for his help. They want to know more about Qlb — pronounced ...

If you want to build software, it's almost mandatory that you'll need to know the English language since all of the tools rely upon that tongue. Unfortunately, that puts non-English speakers at a huge ...

BONN: Deutsche Welle’s DW-TV Arabia has slated a six-hour block of programming in Arabic, with the core schedule made up of four half-hour segments of the news flagship Journal. DW-TV Arabia has ...

In the Arab world, aspiring programmers are faced with a unique kind of challenge: nearly every computer language, platform, and standard in history has been built around a Latin character set — a set ...

Arabic programming languages with the honest goal of bringing coding to a non-Latin culture have been attempted in the past, but have failed without exception. What makes my piece قلب different is ...

Some are born to speak Arabic, some choose to study the language and some have it thrust upon them. The Army assigned me to learn Arabic before they sent me to Vietnam in 1968. I pursued the Arabic ...

When Middle East and North African Languages Program Prof. Rana Raddawi started teaching at Northwestern, she said she was surprised there wasn’t any formal Arabic programming. “(There should be a ...