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This work presents the design and implementation of an Arabic Programming Language Environment. The environment is an attempt to Arabize the user interface for programming languages under MS-Windows. It consists of two interrelated parts. The first part is the Arabic programming environment that enables users to create and edit programs in Arabic. Moreover, the environment provides its users the means to compile and execute these programs. Therefore, this environment is analogous to the programming environments that are available in other programming languages' software-packages. The second part is the Arabic compiler. Currently available compilers are developed for languages whose lexical units are defined using the English alphabet. For students whose native language is not English, this approach imposes a burden. Therefore, it will be helpful to develop compilers with lexical units in other languages. This dissertation describes a specification and implementation of a Pascal programming language interface and a compiler with lexical units defined in the Arabic language. The Arabic Pascal language is an Arabized version of the Standard English Pascal.