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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

Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (Beit al-Hikma)

Academy for sciences, letters and arts whose work includes the Arabic language, translation, and editing and publishing heritage texts.

Tunisia · Carthage

 Language academy

Algerian Academy of the Arabic Language

Presidency of the Republic of Algeria

Develops Arabic as a language of science and technology and oversees the al-Dhakhira al-Arabiya computerised corpus project.

Algeria · Algiers

 Language academy

Iraqi Academy of Sciences

Council of Ministers of Iraq

A language and scholarly academy for the soundness of Arabic and the setting of terminology, with Kurdish and Syriac sections.

Iraq · Baghdad

 Language academy

Jordan Academy of Arabic

Prime Ministry of Jordan

Safeguards Arabic, sets and Arabises terminology, holds an annual conference and oversees the Arabic Language Protection Law.

Jordan · Amman

 Language academy

Sudanese Arabic Language Academy (Khartoum)

A language academy concerned with Arabisation and the soundness of Arabic in Sudan, holding symposia on it.

Sudan · Khartoum

 Language academy

Palestinian Arabic Language Academy

A language academy working on Arabising the sciences and proposing Arabic alternatives to common foreign terms; holds an annual conference.

Palestine · Gaza

 Language academy

Libyan Academy of the Arabic Language

Libyan Council of Ministers

Safeguards the integrity of Arabic, studies and unifies scientific and technical terminology, and publishes research and decisions.

Libya · Tripoli

 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

 Language academy

Arabic Language Academy in Cairo

Sets terminology, publishes general and specialised dictionaries, edits heritage texts and holds an annual conference on Arabic.

Egypt · Cairo

 Language academy

Arab Academy of Damascus

The oldest Arabic language academy; safeguards Arabic, sets terminology, publishes dictionaries and edits heritage texts.

Syria · Damascus

 Language academy

Arabic Language Academy on the World Wide Web (Makkah)

Online language academy offering linguistic rulings (fatawa), decisions and articles, and issuing a journal and publications on Arabic.

Saudi Arabia · Makkah

 Language academy Also teaches Arabic

King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language

Ministry of Culture

Language academy working on language planning and policy, computational linguistics, dictionaries and corpora, with conferences, books and reports on Arabic.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Dictionary project

Association of Arabic Lexicography (Tunis)

Lexicographic research on Arabic, especially the historical dictionary, through conferences and publications.

Tunisia · Tunis

 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

 Research centre

Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO)

French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

Beside Egyptology: Arabic and Islamic studies, Arabic papyri and manuscripts, and a dictionary of Egyptian Arabic.

Egypt · Cairo

 Research centre

Bayt al-Hikma — Department of Linguistic and Translation Studies

Bayt al-Hikma (House of Wisdom)

A research department of Bayt al-Hikma holding seminars and conferences on linguistics and translation, with its own journal and translated publications.

Iraq · Baghdad

 Research centre

Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Sabti Centre for Linguistic and Literary Studies

Rabita Mohammadia of Ulema

Research on the Arabic language sciences (grammar, morphology, lexicon, rhetoric) and their link to the Qur'an and literature, through seminars and publications.

Morocco

 Research centre

Scientific and Technical Research Centre for the Development of the Arabic Language (CRSTDLA)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Research in Arabic linguistics, lexicography, terminology and translation, computational linguistics, Arabic didactics and speech pathology.

Algeria · Algiers (Bouzareah)

 Research centre

Centre d'études islamiques de Kairouan (CEIK)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Studies of Islamic civilisation — history, thought and sciences — manuscript editing, and the Kairouan Qur'ans and heritage.

Tunisia · Kairouan

 Research centre

King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

King Faisal Foundation

Islamic studies research centre with Arabic and heritage work: a peer-reviewed linguistics journal, a manuscript collection, and the Khizanat al-Turath manuscript-location database.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Research centre

Writing and Scripts Center (Calligraphy Center), Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Studies writing systems, inscriptions and calligraphy across the ages, Arabic script included, documenting them digitally and holding international forums.

Egypt · Alexandria

 Research centre

Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic

Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

Historical dictionary recording Arabic words and the development of their meanings over time with dated citations, built on a large text corpus.

Qatar · Doha

 Research centre Also teaches Arabic

Institute of Arab Research and Studies

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

A postgraduate institute of Arab studies, with a department of heritage and manuscript studies; holds symposia and publishes research in the humanities.

Egypt · Cairo

 Research centre Also teaches Arabic

Khartoum International Institute for Arabic Language

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

Trains specialists in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, conducts field research in the area, and is preparing an Arabic–Hausa dictionary.

Sudan · Khartoum

 University centre

Laboratory of Research in Algerian Language and Literature

Mohamed Khider University of Biskra

Research in language sciences and literature in Algeria.

Algeria · Biskra

 University centre

Laboratory of Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Faculty of Letters and Languages, Kasdi Merbah University of Ouargla

Research in text linguistics and discourse analysis of Arabic.

Algeria · Ouargla

 University centre

Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Laboratory

University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella

Text linguistics and discourse analysis: describing, classifying and analysing ancient and modern texts and discourses.

Algeria · Oran

 University centre

Laboratory of Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching

University of Algiers 2 Abou el Kacem Saadallah

Research in applied linguistics and language teaching, with particular attention to Arabic.

Algeria · Algiers

 University centre

Arabic Language and Literature Laboratory

Faculty of Letters and Languages, University of Blida 2 Ali Lounici

Research in Arabic phonetics, lexicography and terminology.

Algeria · Blida

 University centre

Laboratory of Dialects and Speech Processing

University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella

Studies Algerian Arabic dialects and their phonetics, speech processing, and language didactics.

Algeria · Oran

 University centre

Laboratory of Language Practices in Algeria

Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou

Studies language use in Algerian society, the place of Arabic within it, and language policy and planning.

Algeria · Tizi Ouzou

 University centre

Discourse Analysis Laboratory

Faculty of Letters and Languages, Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou

Research in linguistics, discourse analysis, rhetoric and language and literary studies.

Algeria · Tizi Ouzou

 University centre

Laboratory of Didactics of Languages and Discourse Analysis

Faculty of Letters and Arts, Hassiba Ben Bouali University of Chlef

Linguistics, translation and language didactics, including socio- and psycholinguistics, language and technology, and Qur'anic studies.

Algeria · Chlef

 University centre

Laboratoire Langage et Société (URAC 56)

Faculty of Languages, Letters and Arts, Ibn Tofail University

Plurilingualism in Morocco and the state of Arabic within it, and oral literatures, through field research alongside doctoral theses.

Morocco · Kenitra

 University centre

Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage

University of Baghdad

Edits and publishes Arabic scientific manuscripts, holds seminars on heritage and issues a peer-reviewed journal.

Iraq · Baghdad

 University centre

Research Excellence Centre in Arabic Language

King Abdulaziz University

University centre directing research to priority Arabic-language issues and funding projects on language and identity, society, media and translation.

Saudi Arabia · Jeddah

 University centre

Al-Khalil bin Ahmad Al-Farahidi Centre for Arabic and Humanities Studies

University of Nizwa

University centre for Arabic and humanities studies holding scholarly seminars, including one on Omani dialects, and publishing their papers in a peer-reviewed journal.

Oman · Nizwa

 University centre

Arabic Language and Literature Research Centre

Umm Al-Qura University

University centre supporting research and projects in Arabic language sciences and literature, and setting research priorities for the university and society.

Saudi Arabia · Makkah

 University centre

Arabic Language Sciences Research Centre

Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University — Deanship of Scientific Research

Research centre devoted to research in the Arabic language sciences, publishing researchers' books, theses and papers.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 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

 University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institut de lettres orientales (ILO)

Université Saint-Joseph

A university institute of Arabic language and literature, home to the Centre Louis Pouzet and the Maurice Awad Chair, with a research publications list.

Lebanon · Beirut

 University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institute for the History of Arabic Science

University of Aleppo

Studies the history of science among the Arabs, edits and publishes scientific manuscripts, and awards master's and doctoral degrees in the field.

Syria · Aleppo

 University centre

Doha Institute for Graduate Studies — Arabic Linguistics and Lexicography

Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

MA and PhD in Arabic Linguistics and Lexicography, and an MA in Comparative Literature, at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Qatar · Doha

 Research chair

Prof. Abdulaziz Al-Mane Chair for Arabic Language and Literature

King Saud University

Research chair publishing studies in Arabic language and literature, researching language acquisition and learning, and cooperating with Arabic-related institutions at home and abroad.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Research chair

Chair for Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages

Arabic Linguistics Institute, King Saud University

Research, authorship and publishing on teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, including teaching software, with workshops and conferences.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Arabic computing

Oujda NLP Team

Computer Science Research Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed First University

Builds Arabic NLP resources and tools: morphological analysis, automatic diacritisation, parsing and corpora, including the AlKhalil tools.

Morocco · Oujda

 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

NLP Research Groups, King Hussein School of Computing Sciences

Princess Sumaya University for Technology

Arabic NLP: semantics, machine translation and text mining, with an Arabic dependency treebank and paraphrase benchmark datasets.

Jordan · Amman

 Arabic computing

ALELM — Advanced Language Engineering and Learning Modeling research group

Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI), Mohammed V University in Rabat

Arabic language engineering: text processing for Standard Arabic and dialects, and computational language resources.

Morocco · Rabat

 Arabic computing

iWAN Research Group

King Saud University

Arabic language technology: spell-checking, Arabic corpora, a linguistics terminology dictionary, and assistive and educational applications.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Arabic computing

ANLP Research Group, MIRACL Laboratory

MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax

Arabic NLP: text analysis, automatic summarisation, question answering, spoken dialogue systems and Tunisian dialect.

Tunisia · Sfax

 Arabic computing

Arabic Language Processing and Islamic Informatics Research Group

College of Computer and Information Sciences, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University

Arabic language processing: Arabic OCR, unsupervised learning of Arabic morphology, and sentiment analysis of Arabic content.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Arabic computing

Arabic Language Technologies (ALT), Qatar Computing Research Institute

Qatar Computing Research Institute — Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Research group on Arabic text and speech processing, developing tools and applications such as pronunciation feedback, and working to enrich Arabic content.

Qatar · Doha

 Arabic computing

SinaLab for Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence

Birzeit University

Builds the Arabic Ontology, digital lexicons, annotated dialect corpora and tools for Arabic natural language processing.

Palestine · Birzeit

 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

 Arabic computing

Arabic Language Technology Center (ALTEC)

A research consortium on Arabic language technology joining universities and companies; builds language resources and runs conferences, competitions and training schools.

Egypt · Cairo

 Arabic computing

Arabic Artificial Intelligence Centre (Thakaa Al-Arabiyya)

King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language

Centre for AI-based Arabic language processing, with labs for building and annotating language data and developing models and tools for researchers.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Manuscripts and editions

National Manuscripts Centre

Ministry of Culture and Arts

Inventories, catalogues, collects, restores and digitises Algerian manuscripts, and makes them available to researchers.

Algeria · Adrar

 Manuscripts and editions

Mauritanian Institute for Research and Training in Heritage and Culture (IMRFPC)

Mauritanian Ministry of Culture

Collects, catalogues and digitises Mauritanian manuscripts, including those of Chinguetti, Ouadane and Tichitt.

Mauritania · Nouakchott

 Manuscripts and editions

Heritage Library, Qatar National Library

Qatar National Library

Library of rare heritage materials holding over 3,500 manuscripts in Islamic sciences, Arabic and other fields, some digitised for researchers.

Qatar · Doha

 Manuscripts and editions

National Library of Syria (formerly Al-Assad National Library)

Syrian Ministry of Culture

Keeps Arabic manuscripts, including the Zahiriyya collection, and shares digital images of them with researchers in and outside Syria.

Syria · Damascus

 Manuscripts and editions

Supreme Council for Heritage Revival, al-Abbas Holy Shrine

Al-Abbas Holy Shrine

Oversees heritage centres in Karbala, Hillah and Basra that edit and publish manuscripts, and issues peer-reviewed heritage journals.

Iraq · Najaf

 Manuscripts and editions Also teaches Arabic

Beit Al Quran

Museum and research library holding Qur'anic manuscripts from many periods and regions, with rooms for researchers and a school of Qur'anic studies.

Bahrain · Manama

 Manuscripts and editions

Iraqi House of Manuscripts

Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities

Preserves, restores and digitally documents tens of thousands of manuscripts and makes them available to researchers.

Iraq · Baghdad

 Manuscripts and editions

King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah)

Research foundation on the history of Arabia that collects and restores manuscripts and documents and publishes edited texts.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Manuscripts and editions

Imam Zayd bin Ali Cultural Foundation

Collects, digitises and makes available Yemeni manuscripts held in private libraries, and publishes texts from the Zaydi heritage.

Yemen · Sanaa

 Manuscripts and editions

King Abdulaziz Complex for Endowment Libraries

Gathers, preserves, digitises and catalogues endowed libraries and their manuscripts, and supports research on editing and publishing manuscripts.

Saudi Arabia · Madinah

 Manuscripts and editions

Manuscripts Laboratory

Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Algiers 2

Studies Maghrebi manuscripts — their history, cataloguing and preservation — across history, library science, archives and language.

Algeria · Algiers

 Manuscripts and editions

Laboratory of Algerian Manuscripts in Africa

Ahmed Draia University of Adrar

Inventories, catalogues and studies Algerian manuscripts in Algeria and West Africa, including the Touat manuscripts.

Algeria · Adrar

 Manuscripts and editions

Raqqada Manuscripts Conservation Laboratory

National Heritage Institute (INP)

Restores and treats the Kairouan parchments and manuscripts, and inventories, catalogues and digitises them.

Tunisia · Raqqada (Kairouan)

 Manuscripts and editions

Centre de documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes (CEDRAC)

Université Saint-Joseph — Faculty of Religious Sciences

Edits and studies Christian Arabic manuscripts, researches the intellectual history of Christian Arabic traditions, and trains researchers.

Lebanon · Beirut

 Manuscripts and editions

Center of Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions

Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University

Studies papyri, inscriptions and writing across periods, Arabic inscriptions on buildings among them, through a peer-reviewed journal and conferences.

Egypt · Cairo

 Manuscripts and editions

Centre for Studies, Research and Heritage Revival

Rabita Mohammadia of Ulema

Editing and publishing Moroccan and Arabic manuscripts, and research on the textual heritage and editing methods.

Morocco

 Manuscripts and editions

Manuscripts Center, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Studies Arabic-Islamic manuscript heritage through cataloguing and editing, holds conferences and courses, and keeps the Alexandria Municipal Library manuscripts.

Egypt · Alexandria

 Manuscripts and editions

Centre for Manuscripts, Heritage and Documents

Private centre collecting manuscripts in original and copy, cataloguing them, and publishing catalogues, bibliographies and heritage books.

Kuwait · Kuwait City (Jabriya)

 Manuscripts and editions

Center for Documents, Manuscripts and Bilad al-Sham Studies

University of Jordan

Preserves, catalogues and opens to researchers manuscripts, documents and Sharia court registers, and publishes studies on Bilad al-Sham.

Jordan · Amman

 Manuscripts and editions

Heritage Editing Center, Egyptian National Library and Archives

General Egyptian Authority for the National Library and Archives (Dar al-Kutub)

Edits Arabic heritage texts, runs specialised courses in textual editing and has held an annual conference on the field since 2019.

Egypt · Cairo

 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

 Manuscripts and editions

Oman Thakira Centre

Scholarly institution for Omani intellectual heritage: collecting, digitising and restoring manuscripts, cataloguing them in Al-Khizana Al-Omaniya, and editing and publishing texts.

Oman

 Manuscripts and editions

Institute of Arabic Manuscripts

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

Catalogues, digitises and conserves Arabic manuscripts, publishes critical editions and library catalogues, and runs training in codicology.

Egypt · Cairo

 Manuscripts and editions

Institute of Manuscripts and Revival of Islamic Heritage

Umm Al-Qura University

Collects, catalogues, edits and publishes Islamic heritage texts, Arabic-language works among them, and keeps the university's manuscripts.

Saudi Arabia · Makkah

 Manuscripts and editions

Al-Ahqaf Library of Manuscripts

Preserves, catalogues and opens to researchers Hadrami manuscripts gathered from Tarim family libraries and the Qu'aiti sultan's library.

Yemen · Tarim

 Manuscripts and editions

Al-Azhar Library

Al-Azhar

Keeps, restores, catalogues and digitises Al-Azhar's manuscripts, and gathers manuscripts from within and beyond the Islamic world.

Egypt · Cairo

 Manuscripts and editions

Al-Rawda al-Haydariyya Library — Heritage Revival Division

Imam Ali Holy Shrine

Edits and publishes manuscripts, reprints rare books, and catalogues the library's manuscripts and makes them available digitally.

Iraq · Najaf

 Manuscripts and editions

Oman National Library (successor of the Manuscripts Department)

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth

Preserves, restores and digitises Omani manuscripts, having absorbed the Manuscripts Department that began in 1975 as a collecting body.

Oman · Muscat

 Arabization and terminology

Arab Center for Arabization, Translation, Authorship and Publication (ACATAP)

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

Supports Arabic-medium university education by translating, writing and publishing textbooks, and holds conferences on Arabisation and translation.

Syria · Damascus

 Arabization and terminology

Arab Organization for Translation

An independent non-profit that translates key works in the sciences and humanities into Arabic and sets standards for translation and terminology.

Lebanon · Beirut

 Arabization and terminology

Higher Authority for Arabization (Sudan)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Oversees the Arabisation of higher education in Sudan and terminology work; co-sponsored the 12th Arabisation Conference in Khartoum.

Sudan · Khartoum

 Arabization and terminology

Institute of Studies and Research for Arabization (IERA)

Mohammed V University in Rabat

Research on Arabization, terminology and lexicography, Arabic linguistics and language computing.

Morocco · Rabat

 Arabization and terminology

King Abdullah Institute for Translation and Arabization

Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University

University institute for translation and Arabization that has issued an Arabization plan and publishes translations and specialised terminology glossaries.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Arabization and terminology

Arabization Coordination Bureau (ALECSO)

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

Coordinates Arabization across the Arab world, preparing unified specialised dictionaries and standardising scientific and technical terminology.

Morocco · Rabat

 Language council

Union of Arab Language and Scientific Academies

Brings the Arab language academies together to coordinate and unify terminology, holding joint symposia and issuing reports.

Egypt · Cairo

 Language council

High Council for the Arabic Language (Algeria)

Presidency of the Republic of Algeria

Monitors and promotes the use of Arabic in administration, education and science, and publishes translations, dictionaries and studies.

Algeria · Algiers

 Language council

International Council for the Arabic Language

Independent international organisation that holds the annual International Conference on the Arabic Language and seminars, and publishes their proceedings.

Lebanon · Beirut

 Language council

Council of the Arabic Tongue (Mauritania)

Serves Arabic in Mauritania through scholarly seminars and cooperation with language academies, including the Sharjah academy.

Mauritania · Nouakchott

 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

 Other body

Saudi Scientific Society for the Arabic Language

Scholarly society of Arabic-language academics that holds symposia and general assemblies on questions of the language and its literature.

Saudi Arabia

 Other body

Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

Max Weber Foundation

A German research institute on the Near East and the Arab world; projects include Arabic letter semiotics and Arabic literary history, and it publishes text editions.

Lebanon · Beirut

 Other body Also teaches Arabic

French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo)

French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and CNRS

A research institute with a department of medieval and modern Arabic studies, publishing studies and holding seminars on Arabic history and literature.

Lebanon · Beirut

 Other body

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

League of Arab States

Arab organisation overseeing Arabization and manuscripts bodies, working on language policy and a common reference framework for Arabic.

Tunisia · Tunis

 Other body

Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought

An institute of Islamic thought whose projects include the Comprehensive Catalogue of Arabic-Islamic Manuscripts.

Jordan · Amman

 Other body Also teaches Arabic

ICESCO Center of Arabic for Non-Arabic Speakers

Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO)

Publishes a peer-reviewed series of studies on teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers, runs teacher-training programmes and the Arabic Language Riwaq forum.

Morocco · Rabat

 Other body

Hamad Al-Jasser Cultural Centre

Cultural centre at Dar Al-Arab issuing Al-Arab journal on Arabic heritage, language and historical geography, and holding lectures and seminars.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

 Other body

Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO)

Dominican Order

A research centre on the Arabic-Islamic heritage and its primary texts from the first ten centuries of Islam, with a specialised library.

Egypt · Cairo

 Other body

Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes (IBLA)

Humanities and literature of Tunisia, the Maghreb and Arabic-speaking countries, including Tunisian Arabic (Derja).

Tunisia · Tunis

 Other body Also teaches Arabic

Al-Babtain Central Library for Arabic Poetry

Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation

Library specialised in Arabic poetry that collects and catalogues its collections and sources, republishes rare books and holds seminars.

Kuwait · Kuwait City