DMG Section for Semitic Studies: Research, teaching and academic exchange on the Semitic languages and their literatures across all periods

DMG Section for Islamic Studies: Association of DMG members working on Islam and the Islamic world; a forum for exchange and cooperation

DAVO: German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient)
(Renaming decided and currently being implemented → DAWANA, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westasien und Nordafrika / German Association for West Asia and North Africa)

Fachverband Arabisch e.V.: Professional association for the promotion of Arabic language teaching in all areas of education

EURAMAL: The European Association for Modern Arabic Literature

BRISMES: British Society for Middle Eastern Studies

MESA: Middle East Studies Association (USA)

ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association

Other Relevant Institutions

MENALIB: Specialist library for Arabic literature and much more. The Specialised Information Service (FID) Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies provides German academia with highly specialised research materials from the countries of the MENA region. It has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2016 and is run by the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt.

Weiterschreiben.jetzt: Weiter Schreiben (“Keep on Writing”) is a programme for authors from war and crisis zones who now live in Germany. Since 2017, weiterschreiben.jetzt has been translating and publishing poetry and prose, mainly from Arabic and Persian, in German as well as in the original.

PEN Centres in Arab States: PEN International (PEN = Poets, Essayists, Novelists) is the umbrella organisation of around 150 PEN Centres worldwide that promote literature and freedom of expression. The following centres currently exist in Arab states: PEN Algeria; PEN Iraq; PEN Jordan; PEN Lebanon; PEN Mauritania; PEN Morocco; PEN Palestine; PEN Sudan; PEN Syria; PEN Tunisia. The most recent members are PEN Syria (admitted 2025) and PEN Sudan (admitted 2026).