"This charming and important #memoir starts with two mothers in a cold #London playground talking about where to send their young #children to school. One mother says she would like her son to go to a French nursery so he could grow up with two #languages, just like her. But then this playground moment takes a surprising turn.

“Why not send him to a nursery in your #language?” one mother asks.

“I can’t,” #author #SamanthaEllis responds. “My language is dead.”

#Ellis grew up speaking #Judeo-#Iraqi #Arabic. Her #mothertongue isn’t exactly dead, but it is dying, like many #Jewish languages that are not #Hebrew or #Yiddish, and like many of the beautiful Jewish languages spoken by #Jews of the #Arab world."

https://forward.com/culture/books/829874/always-carry-salt-samantha-ellis-judeo-iraqi-arabic/

A fascinating deep dive into the history of Arabic typography, Unicode and the spirit of free software.

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

#Arabic #Unicode #Typography #Programming

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

#programming #typography #arabic

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic and its technical debt

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

#Arabic #Unicode #Typography

What did I just watch

#meme #funny #viral #fyp #arabic

Frontispice au poème جيش الورود __L’armée des fleurs__. Fait d’entrelacs de typographie et de motifs floraux.

Le motif est emprunté a Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), et trouvé sur https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/kamchatka-rose/ qui est une banque d’images classiques élevées au domaine public.

#poesie #poetry #arabic #flowers #publicdomain