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Notes on the theme, the design system, and writing for the web in two directions.

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1. 20 October 20261 min read

   Introducing Arabesque for Zola

   A theme that puts the Arabesque design system together into a site: a blog, documents, or both, in English and Arabic.

2. 12 October 20263 min read

   Markdown, in the system's look

   Every element Markdown writes, as the theme shows it: headings, lists, quotes, code, tables, images and footnotes.

3. 5 October 20262 min read

   Galleries, diagrams and embeds

   The theme's components beyond the design system's own: a gallery of a post's images, scene breaks, Mermaid diagrams, and videos, PDFs, gists and Instagram posts.

4. 30 September 20261 min read

   Native support for RTL content

   How the theme lays out Arabic: mirrored layout, joined letters, isolated numbers, and the type to match.

5. 22 September 20262 min read

   A page for your projects

   Two new templates show a section's pages as cards: a picture, a sentence, a year, and where to find each one.