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Mistake Type: Unconnected Letters

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The Arabic error involves letters that should be connected but are written separately.

Black banner with beige Arabic script and a German byline, with a right-side male headshot and red play icon.
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Bild’s Broken Arabic

Even with an Arabic expert like Constantin Schreiber featured, Bild.de managed to publish a headline where the letters are disconnected and the reading direction is reversed.
Colorful protest-style poster with a pink silhouette of a woman on a yellow background and bold blue-and-yellow text reading GRUPPEN-VERGEWALTIGER, go home! ALLAH WIRD EUCH RICHTEN, with a line of Arabic-style script along the bottom.
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Right-Wing, Wrong-Way

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) wants "Gang Rapists" to go home, but their Arabic text is walking backwards. A lesson in layout fails from the far-right.
Outdoor digital billboard displaying a close-up of a woman's face with colorful paint smudges around her mouth, including text in a non-Latin script at the top and bottom right, and a QR code in the bottom right corner, set against a partly cloudy sky.
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Ad Experts’ Epic Fail

In a spectacular display of irony, Germany’s ad experts (FAW) published a job ad with completely mangled Arabic text. It's not just a glitch; the same broken image is on their website. It's a "how-not-to" guide from the pros themselves.