Egyptian graphic designer Mahmoud El Sayed ... he expanded the project and illustrated over 40 different Arabic words. Calligraphy has been an art form for centuries in the Middle East, using ...

Surprisingly few Coptic words survive in Egyptian, a fact that reflects how quickly the natives adopted Arabic, despite a reputation for resisting outside cultures. Egyptians began to convert to ...

Alexandria-based graphic designer Mahmoud Tammam has taken 40 Arabic words and transformed them to match their meanings. The beautifully minimalistic project uses the arches, dots, and curves of ...

Egyptian Arabic even has its own Wikipedia ... but young Palestinians and Jordanians can blog or podcast in their own words. A broader collapse in pan-Arabism, alongside that of Egyptian power ...

Egyptian Arabic, or Masri, is the most widely spoken ... The dialect has a casual pronunciation, and words are usually shortened or used in slang. The expression "Eid Sa'id" is an expression ...