He discusses the difference between the Arabic script, and one created in Europe to imitate it (but failed to do so) which he calls Eurabic. He mentions that Eurabic does not include the script grammar that is required by the normal Arabic script in order to differentiate similar but distinct combinations of characters.
He mentions various features that exist in Eurabic, but do not exist in Arabic, like the reversed L shapes, the reversed Z shapes, and the inverted V shapes. Also says that these features are a part of the Arabic Times New Roman, while other fonts attempt to include the script grammar of Arabic.
Among the unusual things included in this talk (I never knew those existed but I want a copy of each of those texts):
- At 19:50, a copy of the Opuscles D’Abou’L-Walid using both (Eu/A)rabic and Hebrew scripts, surely an example of written Arabic-Hebrew codeswitching.
- At 20:50, a copy of a Karaite Torah using the Arabic script instead of the Hebrew script.
- At 22:09, a copy of a parallel Arabic-Latin Qur’an, using not the Arabic script, but the Hebrew script.
I highly recommend you spend the next half-hour watching this very interesting and highly informative talk: