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Arabic numbers explained: convert Western digits to Eastern Arabic digits and back, both full sets, counting 1 to 100, and how to type and copy them.

All 28 Arabic letters with names, sounds and their four positional forms, why the dots matter, the six that never join, and how to type them.

Arabic slang by dialect: Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf and Moroccan, plus the words that work everywhere and the arabizi numbers used online.

Arabic punctuation: the mirrored comma, semicolon and question mark, their Unicode points, why the full stop was never mirrored, and how to type them.

The Arabic grammar rules that carry the language: roots and patterns, the two sentence types, idafa, the three cases, ten verb forms, and what dialects drop.

Arabic fonts explained: the 10 best free ones with specimens, the five calligraphic styles behind them, licensing, install steps and why an Arabic font breaks.

The six classical Arabic calligraphy styles — Kufic, Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Ruqʿah and Nastaliq — what each looks like, where it is used, and how to spot it.

Forty Arabic quotes and proverbs with the Arabic script, a literal translation, the real meaning and when people actually say them. No invented sayings.

Arabic dialects explained: the five main groups, how far apart they really are, which one to learn first, and how each is written. With real examples.

Why is Arabic written right to left? The chisel theory, the Phoenician ancestry it shares with Hebrew, and why Arabic numbers still run the other way.