The reason I don’t blog in Arabic
The first question most of my friends ask me the first time they visit my blog is “Why aren’t you blogging in Arabic?”. The answer is: I’d really love to, but i can’t.
When it comes to Web Development, Arabs are still (unfortunately) living in the late 90’s. Web Design to them is basically “front page” or “Dream Weaver”; Usability and Accessibility are two things I’ve never seen discussed in any technical Arab forum; JavaScript is underestimated and abused; Web standards are considered “luxury” instead of “requirement”. Why would I want to target an audience who won’t have even the slightest interest in my posts?
On top of that, most of the technical terms don’t have standard Arabic words to describe them, and a plenty of terms simply can’t be translated without losing some or all of their true meanings. So, even if i wanted to blog in Arabic, it would be very difficult for me (especially when i have to use a right-to-left language with a left-to-write markup).
I hope that I didn’t offend any fellow Arab with my post. I’m not trying to underestimate my people. They do pretty well in many things, but Web Development didn’t happen to be one of them. 
Good thought and I can’t agree more
Quite true. It might be kinda confusing writing right-left arabic with markup. Do you have some kinda arabic markup editor or something that allows you to write arabic too? Or is it just a matter of the languages installed on windows?
Well you could write Arabic in windows by hitting the left ALT+SHIFT to swap languages. So, you’ll need to constantly switch between English and Arabic as you’re coding a web page, which is a pretty tiresome process.
Besides, i couldn’t get arabic characters to be saved properly on the editor(s) that i use.
“it would be very difficult for me (especially when i have to use a right-to-left language with a left-to-write markup).”
MIN JED
“i couldn’t get arabic characters to be saved properly on the editor(s) that i use.:
also, this one MIN JED :>
When I visited your blog for a first time; I thought why he didn’t type and write in Arabic? when you write a new subject ( post ) in Web development with our language, you will help any student and/or developer in our nation .
May your causes in the correct place, but I ask you to rethink . @ all I hope the best for you..
It’s all about pride bro. I’m an Arab living in China. I’ve never seen any Chinese blogging in any foreign language. They all blog in their native language because they are proud of it. من لا يحترم لغته و ثفاقته ليس جديرا بالإحترام .
It has nothing to do with pride in my case Yassine. Please read my post carefully.
I do respect my language, but as I’ve explained in my post, I don’t have any good reason to write Web Development articles in Arabic. Why would I want to target an audience who don’t care about the nature of my articles?
If I were to open a blog about any other topic, it will most likely be in my native language.
طيب كن انت أحد الأسباب الي تنقل العرب من التسعينات إلى المستقبل.
هناك الآلف الذين يهمهم جدا معرفة البرمجيات الحديثة ولكن عدم قدرتهم على فهم اللغة الإنجليزية يعيقهم عن مواصلة ذلك.
قدم ولو القليل لهذه الفئة التي تحتاج لما لديك بدلا من توجيه ما لديك لمن أخذت أنت منه معرفتك ابتداءا.
اخوي عبدالله
علم الحاسب بشكل عام يعتمد اساسا على اللغه الانجليزيه. المصطلحات و لغات البرمجه و حتى الكتب كلها بالانجليزي تقريبا, صعبه بجلس اترجم كل شي لهم, خاصة ان افضل المصادر بالعلوم هذي مكتوبه باللغه الانجليزيه. و اللي ماخذ الموضوع بشكل جدي ما راح يتعمله بالعربي من الاساس
اذا الواحد يبي يتقدم مو مسؤوليتي انا اني اترجمه له كل شي. يفترض يروح هو يشد حيله يتعلم انجليزي على اساس يصير وقتها يقدر يتزود بنفسه و يقرا اي شي ممكن يفيد بهالمجال
And there is what some alternative?