Programmes and resources for teaching Arabic

Textbooks for learning Arabic

Published textbook series and single textbooks for teaching Modern Standard Arabic to non-native speakers, from Saudi Arabia and beyond. Each entry gives the publisher, editions, levels, audience, language of instruction, components, and published evaluation studies.

A listing and description only, not a judgement of quality: we give the facts and do not rate the books; the studies cited are their authors' views. What we could not confirm is marked "not known".

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University students · 3 parts

Comunicare in arabo

Monica Ruocco and colleagues (University of Naples L'Orientale), Hoepli · Italy

  • Editions: 2022–2024
  • Levels: 3 parts: A1–A2, A2–B1, B1–B2
  • Language of instruction: Italian
  • Components: Dialogues, texts, grammar and audio

Includes cultural notes on dialects; its basis is Modern Standard Arabic.

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University students · Two parts

Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba

نحوُ العربيّة النظريُّ والتطبيقيّ (فيتشا فالييري) · Laura Veccia Vaglieri, Istituto per l'Oriente, Rome · Italy

  • Editions: From 1937; tenth printing 2006
  • Levels: Two parts: morphology and basic syntax, then exercises
  • Language of instruction: Italian

A teaching grammar with exercises.

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University students · Single book

Corso di arabo contemporaneo

Olivier Durand, Angela Daniela Langone and Giuliano Mion, Hoepli · Italy

  • Editions: 2010
  • Levels: One beginners' volume with exercises
  • Language of instruction: Italian
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A listing and description, not a judgement of quality. Inclusion rule: an identifiable publisher, a published series or single book, and Modern Standard Arabic. We link only to official pages; a book without one is listed without a link. Most details of the Saudi series come from the 2020 guide to Arabic teaching series published by the King Abdullah International Center for the Arabic Language.