Here's the thing, I like the idea, quite interesting. I can read Arabic. So I tried to read them without looking at the standard written form. Some of them were perfectly legible, but the rest were unreadable because of the extreme manipulation. Otherwise it's quite useful for learning.

Wonderfully done!

This is brilliant. I've been searching for picture mnemonics to help students correlate Arabic letter shapes to words beginning with that sound, like the Read Write Inc. picture cards for English letters. Would you be interested in working on a product like that? It could be correlated to either English words (for non-native students of Arabic, as in the example URL posted below) or Arabic words, or perhaps both, and maybe multiple versions would be needed for the connectors. tha.png

i love these. i wish you would put them on shirts or prints

Oh I just love them all!

Cool! And very clever!

He made this for me. It says Warrior. I have been fighting brain cancer for 5 years. IMG_1291-5...969417.jpg

Are these for sale? How do I get my hands on some? I'd really like to frame a few of them as art pieces in my home. Does anyone know how to reach the artist?!?

I love all of these. I used to do a little calligraphy in high school. I love lettering of all kinds and I've always thought Arabic looked so gorgeous, even though I can't understand it. But I got a little understanding through this, thank you!

This needs to be made into a kids board book!!!

This is cute. But in reality there are over 200 (and perhaps more) words in Arabic that are actually direct descendants of the original Semitic hieroglyphics from which the Arabic written letters were derived. These can clearly be seen without any manipulation. An example: the letter "s" is named "sin", which means teeth, and actually looks like teeth. The letter "j" is "Jamal" which means camel, and actually looks like a camels hump. These are just a few examples. Almost every letter in Arabic (as well as Hebrew) is derived from an earlier hieroglyphic. Thus, the word containing these (and others) ends up looking like the earlier picture writing.

amazing i love them well done when are you gonna do some more رائع

I LOVE ARABIC so much husbus beautiful

beautiful thanks

Thank you so much for adding the transliterations!

beautiful and useful for learning language :)

Lots of imagination

Actually many people learning arabic can tell you that script is the easy part. Don't insult it, if you know nothing about it!

Really cool and would be great to see more, this can be used as a fun way to learn arabic, but pronunciation needs to be checked by an arab

Very creative. I like it a lot especially the calligraphy like in "giraffe"

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I think this is hilarious. A part of why Arabic script was developed the way it was is the prohibition against depictions of living things - the manner of writing was supposed to be the opposite of pictograms (which many early scripts of the Middle East were). This is exactly what makes Arabic script so hard for most people to learn. And how does this artist make Arabic script easier? By making it those horrible, blasphemous pictograms! Ha!