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Arabic in the World

Where Arabic is studied and taught beyond the Arab world, and who does that work there.

Arabic departments at universities, institutes, academic chairs, associations, peer-reviewed journals and schools — gathered country by country, together with their professors, projects and news. Its content is built by the people it describes: researchers add what they know about their own country, and each country page is overseen by a coordinator from that country where there is one.

Countries with the most entries

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India 272 items Indonesia 172 items Türkiye 104 items United States 74 items Brazil 59 items Kyrgyzstan 47 items Germany 45 items Pakistan 43 items United Kingdom 43 items Malaysia 41 items Netherlands 39 items Russia 38 items

Map of Arabic teaching around the world

Each circle is a country with Arabic programmes, institutions or teachers, sized by how much is there. Click one to open its page.

The larger the circle, the more the country holds.

The section in numbers

177Countries
863Institutions teaching Arabic
466Arabic words in their languages
130languages written in Arabic script
47Arabic manuscript collections
140Arabic programmes
559publication venues

What you will find

Institutions teaching Arabic

Arabic department Choose a country to see it 448 University or college Choose a country to see it 103 Arabic language institute Choose a country to see it 84 Academic chair Choose a country to see it Association or society Choose a country to see it 4 School teaching Arabic Choose a country to see it 124 Cultural centre Choose a country to see it 53 Arabic-language periodical Choose a country to see it 46

Scholars and their work

Scholars of Arabic from this country Choose a country to see it 35 Professors and researchers Choose a country to see it 1 Teaching and research projects Choose a country to see it Curricula and Arabic textbooks Choose a country to see it 1 Arabic teaching activities, competitions and recurring programmes Choose a country to see it

Written by the section's readers

My story with Arabic Conversations with teachers Articles Choose a country to see it Ask about Arabic

Arabic in their languages

Arabic words in our languages 466 Languages written in Arabic script 130 Arabic manuscripts Choose a country to see it 47

For students and researchers

Arabic programmes 140 Publication venues 559 Conferences and deadlines 34 Opportunities

Each country has a page that brings all of this together: its institutions, its professors, its projects, books and activities, and its news and articles on the site.

How to take part

I invite non-Arab students, researchers and teachers of Arabic to introduce their countries’ efforts in teaching Arabic — whether university departments, schools or teachers, research and books, activities, or academic news.

1
Add what you know

An institution that teaches Arabic, a professor, or a project, book or activity.

Add what you know about your country
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Publish your news and articles

News and articles about Arabic that you publish on the site appear on your country’s page.

Write an article
3
An outstanding programme

And when a university department or centre excels in teaching Arabic, it can be added to the following list of programmes teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.

Arabic programmes for non-native speakers

Benefits for directory members

For teachers and institutions of Arabic outside the Arab world, as long as they are in the directory: free certificates, and half price on peer-review pages and advertising, permanently – our support for teaching Arabic where it is not spoken.

Certificate issuing 40 free certificates a year, then half price permanently Peer-review page for a journal or book Half price permanently, for an Arabic-language journal or book published by a non-Arab institution Advertising Half price permanently, for advertising Arabic programmes, conferences and courses

Benefits go to an institution published in the directory in a non-Arab country, or to a teacher with a published profile, and are applied automatically at checkout. The institution needs an email address on its own domain, which is used to activate the benefit, and one representative who requests services on its behalf.

Benefits and conditions Add what you know about your country