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Since the beginning of time, visually impaired people have been relying on other senses to interpret their surroundings and function properly, using mobility tools and white canes to guide them. About a decade ago, their quality of life was leveled up by the advances in deep learning and computer vision that were able to achieve state-of-the-art results to assist blind people in daily tasks. Unfortunately, these progresses are very limited in Arabic language. Hence, this project presents “Oyooni” (Arabic for “My Eyes”), a voice-powered Arabic assistant, that introduces several contributions to the Arabic language community, and showcases four deep learning models trained to be used by Arabic-speaking users, in the hopes of helping visually challenged people detect Syrian banknotes, caption scenes in Arabic, detect color and recognize Arabic written text.