Finding a string between two substrings in arabic

I have a string

string = "الطالب يذهب الي الممدرسة"

I want to extract
يذهب
I have tried the following code:

import re
res = re.search('الي(.*)الطالب', string)
print(res.group(1))

But this doesn't work.

Switching the order of the substrings surrounding (.*) solves the problem:

string = "الطالب يذهب الي الممدرسة"

import re
res = re.search('الطالب(.*)الي', string)
print(res.group(1))

Output: ' يذهب '

(I suspect you simply misentered the regular expression due to the way bidirectional text is displayed on your system.)

If the letters are displayed in their isolated forms, with logical ordering from left to right (that is, in the same order as the surrounding Python code), the original (faulty) string would be this

and the corrected string would be this