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Arabic language research centres

Bodies that do research on the Arabic language and its sciences: language academies, major dictionary projects, research centres and university units, research chairs, Arabic computational-linguistics labs, manuscript and critical-edition centres, and Arabization and terminology bodies — in the Arab world and beyond.

This directory is for research on Arabic. Programmes that teach Arabic to non-native speakers have their own: the Arabic programmes directory

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Language academy

Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah

Government of Sharjah

Language academy that supervised the Historical Dictionary of Arabic, supports Arab language academies and hosts their union, with a library and the Al-Lisan Al-Arabi Centre.

United Arab Emirates · Sharjah

 Research centre

Arab Gulf Educational Centre for Arabic Language

Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States

Body of the Arab Bureau of Education preparing studies and research on improving Arabic teaching and learning, and organising the International Arabic Language Conference.

United Arab Emirates · Sharjah

 University centre

Zai Arabic Language Research Centre

Zayed University

Research centre on Arabic teaching and learning and the psychology of reading, developing diagnostic tools, a terminology glossary and the Bariq thesaurus.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

 Arabic computing

Natural Language Processing Department, MBZUAI

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

University NLP department that contributed to building large Arabic language models such as Jais.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

 Arabic computing

CAMeL Lab (Computational Approaches to Modeling Language), NYU Abu Dhabi

New York University Abu Dhabi

Research lab in computational processing of Arabic and its dialects, developing CAMeL Tools and open corpora and resources.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

 Manuscripts and editions

Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage

Centre collecting Arabic and Islamic manuscripts in original and copy, cataloguing and restoring them, making them available to researchers and publishing on heritage.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

 Language council

Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre

Department of Culture and Tourism — Abu Dhabi

Government Arabic language centre funding research grants, building the BAREC readability corpus and a digital lexicon, and running publishing programmes and awards.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi