Death of the First to Introduce Arabic Language to Computers: Who is Mohammed Al-Sharikh, Founder of "Sakhr"?

Today, Wednesday, it was announced in Kuwait about the death of prominent Kuwaiti businessman Mohammed Al-Sharikh, founder of Sakhr Software, who is credited with introducing the Arabic language to computer systems. The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas noted that Al-Sharikh, founder and chairman of Sakhr Software, established in 1982, died at the age of 82. The newspaper added that Al-Sharikh served as Deputy Director-General of the Kuwaiti Fund for Development and was also a member of the Board of Directors of the World Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Washington. It continued, stating that Al-Sharikh, who obtained a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science from Cairo University in 1965, founded the International Electronics Company in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, of which Sakhr was a subsidiary. According to the Arab Gateway for Technology News, the Sakhr computer, a joint project between the International Electronics Company and the Japanese company Yamaha, was one of the first computers to use the Arabic language, later working on the development of optical readers, machine translation, and speech synthesis.