Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Its name translates to 'Gate of Tears' in Arabic, referring to the dangers attending its navigation.

The ship capsized off Isola del Giglio after the captain deviated from the route to perform a 'salute' to the island.

Brazil has been the world's largest coffee producer for over 150 years, known particularly for its Arabica beans.

The Shard, also known as the Shard of Glass, is a 95-story skyscraper in London, completed in 2012. It is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, recognized for its sleek, pyramidal design.

Mandarin uses Hanzi (logographic characters). While Hindi is also a major language using Devanagari, Mandarin's native speaker population is significantly larger.

Punjabi is written in the Gurmukhi script in India (Sikh religion) and the Shahmukhi script (a Perso-Arabic variant) in Pakistan, making it a major language spanning both countries.

Due to the Moorish rule of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) for centuries, Spanish has a large number of loanwords from Arabic, often recognizable by the prefix 'al-' (e.g., alcohol, algebra, almohada [pillow]).

Persian, or Farsi, is the official language of Iran. Unlike the neighboring Arabic, Persian is an Indo-European language, written in a Perso-Arabic script.

Malay (Bahasa Melayu) is officially written in both the Latin alphabet (Rumi) and Jawi, a Perso-Arabic script, particularly in Brunei and as an alternative script in Malaysia.

Morocco's constitution recognizes both Classical Arabic and the indigenous Amazigh language as official. French is also widely used in business and administration but is not officially recognized at the same level.