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Your pen lands on the left side of the page, the way it has your whole life, and something feels...

Somewhere around week three of trying to learn Egyptian Arabic online, an Egyptian friend says “Ezzayak?” on a video call...

By the third week, the app says you know forty Arabic words. You see one in a sign in a...

By three months into your Arabic learning journey, you can already pronounce a sentence fluently. You have learned the alphabet,...

You stand in the arrivals hall at Cairo or Marrakech, phone opened up to the translation app, seeing everybody around...

You open a language app on a Sunday night, type in “Arabic,” and stare at a swirl of letters that...

You have spent ten minutes looking at the same word. You know every letter in that word now, but if...

Open a children’s Arabic book or a copy of the Qur’an and you’ll see clusters of small marks sitting above...