I have a lengthy text in English which occasionally uses Arabic place names in brackets, e.g. Khàbab ( خبب )is a Syrian town 50 km south of Damascus The text is copy-pasted from a Word file, so I do not have to type the Arabic as such, and would not know how to do that anyway. Since I never usually have to work with Arabic script (though I do have a font installed and recognised by ConTeXt (with the usual mtxrun commands) I am not sure how to achieve this. There might be just half a dozen of these place names involved in a text of some 300 pages worth. The font, BTW is Arslan Wessam A.ttf My humble attempt: I did the following in my preamble: \definefallbackfamily [mainface] [sans] [aarslanwessama] [range=arabic] The rest of the [mainface] setups are obviously western fonts. But the fallbackfamily approach did nothing to help. I also tried: Khàbab {\switchtobodyfont[aarslanwessama](خبب)} is a Syrian town 50 km south of Damascus... but that did nothing either. Am quite out of my depth with this one so any help would be appreciated. Julian