Category Archives: Tech & the Arabic Language

Stop the New Internet Law in Lebanon

Written by jessica. Posted on June 10, 2010. Filed under Policies & Practice, SMEX News, Tech & the Arabic Language. Tagged , , , , , . 12 Comments.
For a long time now, whenever anyone started talking about the relative openness of the Net in Lebanon, people have shushed each other or touched wood, so as not to jinx our one very important advantage over the rest of the region: we have very little restrictions on how we use the machine. Wouldn’t you [...]

Arab Women Technologists Start Rewiring the World in Zouk Mikael

Written by jessica. Posted on May 11, 2010. Filed under SMEX News, SMEX Training & Events, Stories & Case Studies, Tech & the Arabic Language. 7 Comments.
About 35 women from 12 countries throughout the Arab region gather to talk about technology and empowerment this week in Zouk Mikael.
SMEX and Arab Techies have spent the past couple of months organizing a meetup of about 34 women from ten Arab countries to talk about technology, empowerment, entrepreneurship, development, and whatever else they want to put on the table. Participants are programmers, web developers, artists, teachers, professors, PhD students, bloggers, social media experts, activists, NGO [...]

Yamli’s Dynamic Translator Project

Written by jessica. Posted on March 25, 2010. Filed under Tech & the Arabic Language. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
Yamli's dynamic translator lets you type, translate, and edit in near real-time.
Yamli has launched a tool that lets you edit the machine translation almost as you type. Based on Google’s translation API and consisting of a simple set up of two side-by-side boxes, users type in the original language in the left-hand box and watch as the machine translation is generated in real time on the [...]

A List Apart, in Arabic: Q&A with the Creators

Written by jessica. Posted on January 19, 2010. Filed under Tech & the Arabic Language, Web Design & Development. Tagged , , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
A post from Arabic A List Apart with an illustration by Maya Zankoul
This week saw the launch of Arabic A List Apart, an official version of the standard-setting A List Apart Magazine, which has been exploring “the design, development, and meaning of web content” for more than a decade. The Arabic version was spearheaded by the team of Mohammad Saleh Kayali (editor), Beshr Kayali (web development and [...]