Tattoos can be seen on people in many Arab countries today however tattooing is not a Arab tradition. Tattooing is  commonly practiced  among the Berbers of North Africa by women. Christians Arabs in Egypt tattoo crosses on their hands or wrists.

If you want to have an Arabic tattoo design, you must take note of the writing that you should know about Arabic writings:

• It is written starting from right to left
• It uses the 18 distinct letter shapes
• It involves change of shapes in connecting the letters
• There are different types of scripts used in traditional Arabic calligraphy as early as the 7th century which include Farsi, Kufi, Deewani, Naskh, Req’aa and Thuluth.