Quick hack: Simple Arabic Transliterator . You type in roman letters and it shows Arabic. Try e.g. "aljbr" to see the word that "algebra" comes from.I feel like I've written this program four times, though maybe making it web-based will make it useful for other people. It's pretty straightforward except it uses a longest-match rule so "kh" produces a different character than "k".I wrote this one for Meena, who then wrote me a short email in Arabic in return. I can read about half of it.