Sophia Al-Nawasreh

Sophia Al-Nawasreh

Building Qalami, AI marking for teachers

About

I'm Sophia, a solo founder in the GCC. I wrote learning materials for primary schools, studied game design at Uppsala University, and grew up at a teacher's dining table covered in marking. I'm building Qalami, which marks handwritten student writing in Arabic and English against the teacher's own rubric, with the teacher approving every mark. My goal for the next year is to get it into bilingual schools across the Gulf, where most writing is still done by hand and often in Arabic. Always happy to talk to teachers, and to anyone building for schools.

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Maker History

  • Qalami
    QalamiMarks handwritten Arabic and English essays to your rubric
    Oct 2026
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    Joined Product HuntOctober 7th, 2026

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Qalami - Marks handwritten Arabic and English essays to your rubric

Qalami marks handwritten student writing. Photograph a class set of essays, or upload PDF and Word files, and it marks each paper against your own rubric and drafts the feedback. Every score comes with a quote from the pupil's writing, so you can see why. Nothing counts until you approve it. It reads Arabic handwriting as well as English, and the whole app works in both languages, right to left included. You can try one paper without an account at qalamiapp.com/try.
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