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 ...

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 ...

Izza, this week's Arabic word, means dignity ... Famous Arab celebrities named Izza (or its equivalent) have included Egyptian actors Ezzat Abou Aouf and Ezzat El Alaili, as well as Lebanese ...

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 ...

Its most distinctive feature is the use of "g" sound in place of the "j" sound used in formal Arabic. The word najm (star) in MSA will be pronounced negm in the Egyptian dialect. Egyptian Arabic ...

Egypt's parliament is considering a proposal for preserving the Arabic language that has caused ... and for colloquial and foreign words to be avoided. The motion, due to be discussed in ...

Ancient Egyptian words seep powerfully through the sands ... The term 'Copt' was used by the Greeks and the Arabic invasions to refer to all Egyptians, only later was the term used to specify ...

Unwritten in Roman-alphabet transliterations, it’s actually a consonant that begins many common words ... Arabic spoken in Morocco is as different from Arabic spoken in Egypt and from Modern ...