The Problem
You know exactly what this has cost you already.
The late nights
Adjusting spacing by hand that still never quite looks right.
The freelancer's quote
Hundreds of dollars for something that should've taken an afternoon.
The "finished" PDF
Opened it, and your right-to-left pages read left to right. Start over.
It wasn't your fault. Tools just weren't built for the way your language flows. — so you either paid up or fought the formatting yourself.
Every week this sits unfinished is a week your readers don't have your book.
The Shift
This is where it stops being your problem.
1. Upload
Your manuscript, exactly as you wrote it.
2. WARRAQ reads it
It spots your chapters, quotes, and footnotes automatically.
3. Your book, laid out right
Right to left, the way the script is meant to sit.
1. Upload
Your manuscript, exactly as you wrote it.
2. WARRAQ reads it
It spots your chapters, quotes, and footnotes automatically.
3. Your book, laid out right
Right to left, the way the script is meant to sit.
No settings to hunt for. No decisions you need to be a typesetter to make.
What You Get
Built to handle what other tools get wrong.
Every mark stays put
Diacritics that shift or land on the wrong letter are the kind of error you don't catch until it's printed. What you approve is what your reader sees.
Lines set the way they should be
Justified the way a right-to-left typesetter would do it — not stretched into gaps a left-to-right engine happens to allow.
الكتابة من اليمين إلى اليسار كما ينبغي أن تكون
Footnotes flow the right direction
Chapters, page numbers, and footnotes stay where they belong. No broken numbering, and not a single page flipped by hand.
Who This Is For
For anyone tired of hunting for a setting that shouldn't need to exist.
Authors
Writing in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, or Kurdish, ready to publish — not to become a typesetter on top of a writer.
Academics & researchers
Who can't afford broken citations or footnotes that jump pages.
Small publishing houses
Without the budget for a full-time layout specialist.
Meet THE Team
Built by two people, in public.
WARRAQ is built openly, documenting real progress and decisions rather than presenting a finished product.
Samra
Founder — Design & Engineering
Builds and designs WARRAQ end to end, from the RTL typesetting engine to the product itself.
Rubina Shafiq
Co-Founder — Research & Strategy
Leads research, positioning, and strategy behind WARRAQ.
Why Join Now
Join now cause you're not just first in line — you help build it.
Locked-in early pricing
Whatever you pay at launch stays your rate, even after prices go up for everyone else.
A direct line to the build
Your footnotes, your formatting headaches, your feature requests actually shape what gets built next.
Build it with us
Get early access to test raw builds, give feedback, and help us get the details right before launch.