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On a recent afternoon, Haddad received an email from a retired schoolteacher in Morocco. He had used the platform to digitize his late wife’s handwritten recipe book, adding tashkeel so his grandchildren could read the vowels.

“My parents speak Arabic at home, but I never learned to type it,” says Samia, a 22-year-old user from Michigan. “Arabic-Text.com lets me write ‘keefak’ in Latin letters, and it converts it into ‘كيفك’ in proper script. Then I can copy it into a text to my grandmother. That’s huge.” Arabic - Text.com

By Nora Al-Mansouri

“Calligraphy isn’t decoration in Arabic culture,” notes Youssef Karam, a type designer based in Cairo who consulted on the project. “It’s architecture. The baseline is the ground. The ascenders (alif, lam) are pillars. The descenders (waw, ra) are roots. Arabic-Text.com understands that. It doesn’t just display letters; it respects their gravity.” On a recent afternoon, Haddad received an email