Objects—everything from cars, birds, and faces to letters of the alphabet—look significantly different to people familiar with them, a new study suggests. Using the Arabic alphabet as a frame of ...

It’s an essential pillar in the Arabic curriculum that she designed and is now teaching over a new, five-week camp this summer. Alhamwi (left) goes through letters of the Arabic alphabet.

“In Hebrew, most of the identifying characteristics of letters’ forms are near the bottom part,” she said. “When I went to check Arabic, I crossed my fingers that they would be on the top ...