What pops into your mind when you see Arabic script? BBC World News? Urdu shayari? Old-school Punjabi poetry?<\/p>\n\n
Midwest Airlines grounded a flight<\/a> from Milwaukee to San Francisco after a passenger grew alarmed at seeing Arabic script handwritten inside a magazine (via Half the Sins<\/a>). The plane returned to the gate, a thorough search turned up nothing, and passengers had to spend the night. The script turned out to be a meditative passage in Farsi written by a Persian Jack Handy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Reminds me of a trusty Shazia Mirza<\/a> joke which went something like this: ‘I told my audience I had a surprise for them. And everybody ducked.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What pops into your mind when you see Arabic script? BBC World News? Urdu shayari? Old-school Punjabi poetry? Midwest Airlines grounded a flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco after a passenger grew alarmed at seeing Arabic script handwritten inside a … Continue reading