The Arabeyes project has a lot of interesting work going on to improve Arabic support in Unix/Linux environments. Their Wordlist project is an attempt to produce a GPL’d English/Arabic dictionary. It seems to be off to a good start as a list of translated words, but I wonder if it could do with more structure, [...]

Faiza’s Arabic Class. Only a couple lessons so far, but fun and friendly. Nearby: A Family in Baghdad and their Pictures of Baghdad (“before, during and after the war”).

I’ve been looking around for online Arabic tutorials.

I’ve just installed WordPress a new tool to manage this site, and potentially others (including installations for FOAF and W3C work). While I’m a big fan of Movable Type, I do like the idea of working with opensource software that I can contribute to. From what I’ve seen of WordPress, it has a lot to [...]