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.

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Children · 7 graded books

Gateway to Arabic

بوّابة العربيّة · Imran Hamza Alawiye, Anglo-Arabic Graphics · United Kingdom

  • Editions: From about 2002
  • Levels: 7 graded books, extension books and a handwriting book
  • Language of instruction: English
  • Components: Student book, answer book and audio CDs

Mainly for children and teenagers and for Islamic schools in the West.

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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.