"This is an exploratory study of a digital-script called 3ngleezy, which was developed by the Arab youth in the Middle East and North Africa. This script incorporates Arabic numerals and the English alphabet in texts composed primarily in and for digital spaces. This study explores how such a script allows users to transcribe Arabic in these digital spaces while retaining some of the visual and aural integrity of the Arabic script. Furthermore, in light of the 2011 Arab revolution, this study explores the social subtext of 3ngleezy, which appears to have the rhetorical power to create and mobilize users in digital communities into social action"--Abstract.
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