from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw

font = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf", 72)
img = Image.new("RGBA", (200, 100))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.text((0, 0), u"عربي", (0, 0, 0), font)
img.show()