[mrkgnao]

That sounds like "Alexander". Interesting.

[yoo1I]

... not sure how well this system will fare, given that "Eskéndereyya" is 'literally' the arabic name of the city of Alexandria.

[_samihasan_]

Just a minor correction, "Eskéndereyya" is Alexandria in Egyptian Arabic not MSA. In MSA, it's "al Iskándareyya" using this writing system rules.

[jmstfv]

Languages (or language families) that are influenced by Arabic (Turkic family[0], for example) `interpret` Alexander as such, albeit with slight modifications (Iskender[TR], İsgəndər[AZ] and so on). If you listen to the pronunciation[1] of Alexander in Arabic you could witness that this is indeed the case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages

[1] https://translate.google.com/#en/ar/alexander

Edit: fixed spacing

[_samihasan_]

Yes.

In MSA, it's "Iskandar" and in Egyptian Arabic it's "Eskandar".