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2026 — nowAn archive of Arabic’s long encounter with the machine.
OpenArabtronics // technology company
Arabic is not an afterthought.
We build hardware, software, and a community where Arabic is a native language of the machine — not a feature added at the end of the road.
Founded by Tarek Hoteittarek.computer
- Hardware + software
- Open research
- Arabic first
$ whoami
arabtronics — an Arabic-first technology company
$ cat mission.txt
Arabic should be native to the machine, not translated into it.
$ ls ./work
consulting/ schools/ rnd/ journal/
LOCALE: EN / LTROnline
01The work
Four tracks, one loop
Commercial work funds the research, research feeds the teaching, and teaching sends us better questions. These are not separate departments; they are one loop.
01For institutions
Consulting & workshops
Arabic-first product strategy, AI integration, and hands-on workshops for teams that need technology to work in Arabic — not merely be translated into it.
Work with us02Pro bono
Schools program
Free sessions for public schools on AI, computing, and how machines read Arabic. No cost, no sales pitch.
Bring us to your school03In public
Research & development
Experiments in Arab technology: an archive of Arabic’s history in computing, a keyboard designed for Arabic from first principles, and a bilingual platform for Lebanon’s technology sector.
Enter the lab04Notes
Journal
Essays and working notes on language, code, hardware, and the long road to native Arabic computing.
Read the journal02The lab
Current experiments
Three projects at the center of the work: the history of Arabic in computing, a keyboard designed for Arabic from first principles, and a bilingual technology platform for Lebanon.
03Journal
From the workbench
Notes on language, code, hardware, and the long road to native Arabic computing.
- Why ArabtronicsForty years of writing software in English, and a language slipping away from the machine. Why I started Arabtronics.
- Arabic 2.0: Reimagining Our Cultural Identity in the Age of AIA talk for the Arab and Muslim Students Society at the University of Oregon on Arabic and technology, with a recorded presentation and downloads.
- Computers in Developing Nations: A Cautionary Tale (1977)A 1977 cautionary tale about computing in developing nations, and why programmers resisted Arabic compilers in the 1970s.
Open channel
Does your system need to speak Arabic?
From a digital product to a workshop for your team to a school visit: tell us what you are working on, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Open a channel
info@arabtronics.com — Opens your email client.