Arabic script remains one of the most widely employed writing systems in the world, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. Focusing on naskh, the style most commonly used across the Middle East, ...

The symbols we use to write words evolve to become visually simpler over time, and an analysis of a writing system from West Africa shows that they can do so over just a few generations. The script ...

Nicholas Coughlan, played by newcomer Fionn O’Shea, is the son of a bored, wasted civil servant in Dublin, played by hopelessly miscast Pierce Brosnan. Every day, he witnesses his father’s misery ...