Arab Techies is a collective of Arabic speaking technology enthusiasts and practitioners from varying backgrounds interested in working together to support their communities on the route for development and social change, to share experiences and knowledge, and to collaborate on solving common problems.

The Arab Techies Projects space hosts the development of software projects developed as part of the activities of Arab Techies and its members. at the moment the projects are mainly focused on Arabic localization and natural language processing

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Yamli for your browser

Yamli allows users to type Arabic without an Arabic keyboard, from within their web browser. This technology is based on a real-time transliteration engine which converts words typed with Latin characters to their closest Arabic equivalent. The idea is to write a FireFox extension and a drag'n'drop bookmarklet to allow the users to enable this functionality on any textarea in any website.