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The most comprehensive, up-to-date collection of Arabic NLP resources on the internet.
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πŸ“‘ Table of Contents

🏒 Key Organizations

Research labs and institutions driving Arabic NLP forward.

Organization Focus Key Contributions Link
AUB MIND Lab Foundational Arabic NLP models AraBERT, AraGPT2, AraELECTRA GitHub
CAMeL Lab, NYUAD Arabic NLP tools and models CAMeLBERT, camel_tools GitHub
UBC-NLP Dialectal Arabic, multimodal models MARBERT, AraT5, NileChat, PEARL, Dallah HF
QCRI Arabic LLMs, text processing Fanar LLMs, AraDiCE, Farasa HF
SILMA AI State-of-the-art Arabic LLMs SILMA LLMs, Arabic Broad Benchmark Web
MBZUAI Multimodal and speech models AIN, ArTST, ClArTTS HF
ARBML Democratizing Arabic NLP masader, klaam, tkseem GitHub
NAMAA-Space Arabic NLP models & dialect hub Qari-OCR, EgypTalk-ASR, Masrawy translator, GLiNER Arabic HF
ITIDA / MCIT (Egypt) Egypt's national AI, sovereign models Karnak LLM, BelMasry, Torgoman, SIA, AcQua Web
Omartificial-Intelligence-Space Arabic embedding models GATE, Matryoshka embeddings HF
TII (Technology Innovation Institute) Arabic LLM benchmarks, Falcon Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard, Falcon LLM Web
SDAIA (Saudi Data & AI Authority) Sovereign Arabic LLM, national AI strategy ALLaM model, SADA dataset, BALSAM benchmark Web
HUMAIN (Saudi PIF) Full-stack AI company ALLaM 34B, HUMAIN Chat, AI factories Web
KAUST AI research, Arabic NLP Center of Excellence in Generative AI Web
KFUPM-JRCAI Joint SDAIA-KFUPM AI research Arabic AI text detection datasets HF
Prince Sultan University (RIOTU) Arabic language models ArabianGPT, Arabic IoT AI HF
SinaLab, Birzeit University Arabic NLP tools and datasets SinaTools, Wojood NER GitHub
G42 / Inception AI Arabic-centric LLMs Jais LLM family Web
FreedomIntelligence Arabic LLMs and alignment AceGPT, Arabic cultural datasets GitHub
Helsinki-NLP Machine translation models OPUS-MT Arabic translation models HF
LightOn AI Arabic web data ArabicWeb24 corpus (39B+ tokens) HF

πŸ† Benchmarks & Leaderboards

Standardized evaluation frameworks for Arabic language models.

Benchmark Description Link
MTEB Arabic Leaderboard Massive Text Embedding Benchmark for Arabic HF
Arabic Broad Leaderboard (ABL) NextGen evaluation for Arabic LLMs by SILMA AI HF
Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard Evaluation of Arabic LLMs across multiple benchmarks HF
ALUE Arabic Language Understanding Evaluation benchmark Web
BALSAM Benchmark of Arabic Language AI Systems and Models Web
SILMA RAGQA Benchmark Evaluates Arabic/English LMs in Extractive QA tasks HF
Arabic Broad Benchmark (ABB) Comprehensive evaluation tool for Arabic LLMs HF
ArabicMMLU Multi-task language understanding from school exams HF
GATmath and GATLc Benchmarks from Saudi GAT exams Paper
ArabicRAGB Arabic RAG Benchmark (multi-dialect) HF
ACVA Arabic Cultural Value Alignment (8000+ questions, 58 areas) HF
AraDiCE Benchmarks for dialectal and cultural capabilities of LLMs Paper
Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard Multi-dialectal Arabic speech recognition benchmark HF
KITAB-Bench Arabic OCR benchmark: 8,809 samples, 9 domains, 36 sub-domains (MBZUAI) HF

πŸ€– State-of-the-Art Models

πŸ’¬ Large Language Models (LLMs)

Arabic-centric and multilingual LLMs with strong Arabic capabilities.

Model Params Developer Key Features Link
Jais 13B, 30B Inception AI, Cerebras Arabic-centric, bilingual, instruction-tuned HF
SILMA 1.0 9B SILMA AI Top-ranked Arabic LLM built on Gemma HF
ALLaM 7B SDAIA & IBM Saudi's sovereign model, enterprise-focused HF
Fanar-1-9B 9B QCRI Arabic-English LLM HF
AceGPT 7B FreedomIntelligence Top performance, culturally aligned GitHub
Atlas-Chat 2B-27B MBZUAI-Paris Lab Moroccan Darija dialect HF
NileChat-3B 3B UBC-NLP Egyptian and Moroccan dialects HF
Nile-Chat 4B-12B MBZUAI-Paris Lab Egyptian Arabic and Arabizi scripts HF
AraGPT2 1.5B AUB MIND Lab GPT-2 for Arabic text generation HF
Command R7B Arabic 7B Cohere Arabic-optimized Command R variant HF
SambaLingo-Arabic 7B, 70B SambaNova Arabic-adapted Llama 2 HF
ArabianGPT 0.1B Prince Sultan University GPT-2 for Arabic, RIOTU Lab HF
Nuha - Elm (Saudi) Multi-modal Arabic-first LLM for gov services, dialect-aware Web
Llama 3.3 70B Meta Strong Arabic performance HF
Qwen 3 0.6B-235B Alibaba Multilingual with Arabic support HF
Gemma 3 1B-27B Google Multimodal capabilities HF
Cohere Command-A 111B Cohere Optimized for RAG HF
Mistral Saba 24B Mistral Commercial API Web
Falcon Arabic 7B TII (UAE) First Arabic model in Falcon series, top of OALL HF
Falcon-H1-Arabic 3B-34B TII (UAE) Hybrid Mamba-Transformer, 128K-256K context HF
ALLaM-2 7B-70B SDAIA & IBM 500B+ Arabic tokens, largest Arabic training set HF
Mulhem - SDAIA Open-source Arabic-first LLM from Saudi Arabia Web
Arcee-Meraj 72B Arcee AI Enterprise Arabic LLM based on Qwen2-72B HF
Arcee-Meraj-Mini 7B Arcee AI Top OALL among 7B models HF
Aya-Expanse 8B-32B Cohere State-of-the-art multilingual with strong Arabic HF
SILMA Kashif 2B SILMA AI Lightweight RAG-optimized Arabic model HF
Ar-stablelm-2-chat 1.6B Stability AI Small Arabic chat model HF
Yehia 7B Navid-AI Based on ALLaM, Arabic instruction-tuned HF
AraLLaMA 7B Bashar Alhafni LLaMA2 pre-trained on Arabic data HF
Shahin 14B malhajar Syrian Arabic dialect, Qwen2.5-based HF
Labess Chat 7B Linagora Tunisian Arabic, based on Jais architecture HF
Phi-4 4B Microsoft Multilingual with Arabic, compact & efficient HF
ALLaM 34B 34B HUMAIN (Saudi) Most advanced Arabic LLM, 8PB training data, powers HUMAIN Chat Web
Karnak 30B-70B ITIDA (Egypt) Egypt's national sovereign LLM, top Arabic in its class Web
NOOR 10B TII (UAE) World's largest Arabic NLP model at launch, GPT-3 architecture Web
Noon 7B Naseej BLOOM-based Arabic LLM, instruction-tuned HF
Fanar Star 7B QCRI (Qatar) Trained from scratch on 1T Arabic/English tokens Web
JASMINE 0.3B-6.7B UBC-NLP Arabic GPT for few-shot learning, 400GB training data HF
Kawn - Misraj AI (Saudi) Arabic-first ecosystem with 15-dialect support Web
Kuwain 1.5B Misraj AI Arabic SLM via language injection, 70% cost reduction Paper
Mutarjim 1.5B Misraj AI Arabic-English translation, rivals GPT-4o mini Paper
GemmAr 7B ClusterlabAi Gemma Arabic instruction-tuned on InstAr-500k Paper
LlamAr 8B ClusterlabAi LLaMA 3 Arabic instruction-tuned on InstAr-500k Paper
Calme 2.2 72B MaziyarPanahi Qwen2-based, strong OALL performance HF

🌐 Multimodal Models

Model Params Developer Key Features Link
AIN 8B MBZUAI Arabic-centric Large Multimodal Model GitHub
Dallah - UBC-NLP Advanced multimodal LLM for Arabic HF
Peacock 7B UBC-NLP Arabic multimodal (InstructBLIP + AraLLaMA) HF
Qalam - - Arabic OCR/HWR multimodal LLM, 0.80% WER Paper

🧠 Transformer-based Models

Model Developer Key Features Link
AraBERT AUB MIND Lab First BERT for Arabic, multiple versions GitHub
AraBERTv02 AUB MIND Lab Improved tokenization (135M params, 12M+ downloads) HF
CAMeLBERT CAMeL Lab, NYUAD MSA, Dialectal, and Classical Arabic GitHub
MARBERT UBC-NLP Focused on Dialectal Arabic and MSA GitHub
MARBERTv2 UBC-NLP Updated with improved dialectal coverage HF
AraELECTRA AUB MIND Lab ELECTRA for Arabic HF
AraT5 UBC-NLP T5 for Arabic summarization, translation, paraphrasing HF
SaudiBERT King Saud University Saudi dialect BERT, trained on 141M tweets (STMC) + forums HF
EgyBERT faisalq Egyptian dialect BERT, trained on 34M tweets + 44M forum sentences HF
SA-BERT-V1 Omartificial-Intelligence-Space Saudi Arabic BERT, fine-tuned MARBERTv2 HF

πŸ”€ Embedding Models

Model Developer Key Features Link
GATE-AraBert-v1 Omartificial-Intelligence-Space SOTA on MTEB Arabic STS HF
Arabic-Triplet-Matryoshka-V2 Omartificial-Intelligence-Space Matryoshka representation HF
Swan UBC-NLP Dialect-aware, cross-lingual Paper
asafaya/bert-base-arabic asafaya BERT-based Arabic embeddings HF
ModernBERT-Arabic BounharAbdelaziz ModernBERT-based sentence embeddings HF
DIMI-embedding AhmedZaky1 Matryoshka + AraBERT for NLI HF

🎯 Task-Specific Models

Model Task Key Features Link
CAMeLBERT-MSA-Sentiment Sentiment Analysis Fine-tuned for MSA sentiment HF
t5-arabic-summarization Summarization T5 for Arabic news summarization HF
opus-mt-en-ar Translation EN→AR Helsinki-NLP (3.5M+ downloads) HF
opus-mt-ar-en Translation AR→EN Helsinki-NLP (12.4M+ downloads) HF
arabic-gec-v1 Grammar Correction Gemma-3-1b for Arabic GEC HF
Arabic-Text-Correction Text Correction AraT5-based text correction HF
arat5-dialects-translation Dialect→MSA AraT5 dialect translation HF
Masrawy Translator EN→Egyptian Arabic 150K+ rows, 10M+ tokens, Egyptian dialect HF
GLiNER Arabic Named Entity Recognition Plug-and-play Arabic NER (NAMAA-Space) HF

πŸŽ™οΈ Audio Models

πŸ—£οΈ Speech Recognition (ASR)

Model Key Features Link
openai/whisper-large-v3 Supports Arabic among many languages HF
MasriSwitch-Gemma3n Egyptian Arabic code-switching transcription HF
wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic Fine-tuned on Common Voice & Arabic Speech Corpus HF
artst_asr_v3 ArTST for ASR on MGB2 (best for MSA) HF
EgypTalk-ASR-v2 High-performance ASR for Egyptian Arabic HF
whisper-large-v3-turbo 4x faster Whisper, Arabic support, MIT license HF
NVIDIA FastConformer Arabic SOTA Arabic ASR, 115M params, 760h training, CC-BY-4.0 HF
NVIDIA FastConformer Arabic (Diacritics) Arabic ASR with diacritical marks, 1100h training HF
SeamlessM4T v2 Meta's all-in-one ASR + translation, ~100 languages inc. Arabic HF
MMS-1b-all Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech, ASR for 1100+ languages HF
SpeechBrain wav2vec2 Arabic Wav2Vec2 + CTC fine-tuned on CommonVoice 14 Arabic HF
HuBERT-Large Arabic HuBERT fine-tuned on 2000h Arabic, 17.68% WER HF
HuBERT Egyptian Arabic HuBERT fine-tuned for Egyptian dialect on MGB-3 HF
Whisper Quran Whisper fine-tuned for Quranic recitation recognition HF
Whisper Egyptian Arabic Whisper-medium fine-tuned on 72h Egyptian speech HF
Whisper Arabic (small) Whisper-small fine-tuned for Arabic language HF
KalemaTech Arabic STT Whisper-small optimized for Arabic STT HF
Voxtral Mini Mistral's speech model, 3B, Arabic support, Apache 2.0 HF
Klaam Arabic ASR/TTS/classification library (MSA + Egyptian) GitHub

πŸ”Š Text-to-Speech (TTS)

Model Key Features Link
facebook/mms-tts-ara Facebook's Massively Multilingual Speech HF
speecht5_tts_clartts_ar SpeechT5 for Classical Arabic TTS HF
F5-TTS-Arabic F5-TTS with regional diversity HF
Arabic-F5-TTS-v2 Improved F5-TTS Arabic fine-tune HF
Arabic-TTS-Spark Spark TTS fine-tuned on 300h clean Arabic, MSA with diacritics HF
LLMVoX 30M streaming TTS for any LLM, first Arabic autoregressive TTS HF
XTTS-v2 Coqui's multilingual voice cloning, Arabic support, 6s cloning HF
Arabic MMS Speech Synthesis VITS-based Arabic TTS from MMS (36M params) HF
tts-arabic-pytorch Tacotron2 + FastPitch + HiFi-GAN for Arabic GitHub
tts_arabic (ONNX) FastPitch + Mixer-TTS in ONNX for offline Arabic TTS GitHub
Arabic Tacotron TTS End-to-end Arabic TTS based on Tacotron GitHub
Piper TTS Fast local neural TTS, Arabic voices available GitHub

πŸ“Š Arabic TTS Datasets & Benchmarks

Resource Description Link
ArVoice Multi-speaker MSA corpus, 83h, 11 voices, diacritized HF
ClArTTS Classical Arabic TTS corpus by MBZUAI HF
Arabic Speech Corpus Nawar Halabi's Levantine Arabic TTS corpus (CC-BY-4.0) HF
SawtArabi First Arabic dialectal + code-switching TTS benchmark Paper
Open-Source Arabic TTS Benchmark SILMA AI's auditory assessment benchmark HF

πŸ‘οΈ Vision Models

πŸ“– Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Model Key Features Link
QARI-OCR v0.2 Updated Qwen2-VL 2B for Arabic OCR; WER 0.160, CER 0.061 HF
Qari-OCR-0.1-VL-2B-Instruct Qwen2 VL 2B fine-tuned for Arabic OCR HF
Baseer Arabic document-to-markdown, Qwen2.5-VL-3B based (Misraj AI), WER 0.25 HF
Arabic-English-handwritten-OCR-v3 Qwen2.5-VL-3B, trained on 47K handwriting samples HF
AtlasOCR First Darija/Moroccan Arabic OCR, Qwen2.5-VL-3B based HF
DIMI-Arabic-OCR Printed Arabic with diacritics OCR (Qwen2-VL based) HF
arabic-large-nougat End-to-end structured OCR for Arabic documents HF
arabic-small-nougat Smaller Nougat variant for Arabic document OCR HF

πŸ”§ Traditional OCR Tools (Arabic Support)

Tool Key Features Link
PaddleOCR High-performance multilingual OCR with Arabic support GitHub
EasyOCR Ready-to-use OCR with Arabic support (80+ languages) GitHub
Tesseract OCR Open-source OCR engine with Arabic language packs GitHub

πŸ“Š Arabic OCR Datasets & Benchmarks

Resource Description Link
KITAB-Bench 8,809 samples across 9 domains & 36 sub-domains (MBZUAI, ACL 2025) HF
SARD Synthetic Arabic OCR dataset for recognition training HF
Misraj-DocOCR Benchmark Arabic document OCR evaluation benchmark by Misraj AI HF

πŸ–ΌοΈ Image Captioning

Model Key Features Link
blip-Arabic-flickr-8k BLIP fine-tuned for Arabic image captioning HF

✏️ Diacritization (Tashkeel)

Models and tools for adding harakat (Ψ­Ψ±ΩƒΨ§Ψͺ) to Arabic text.

Models

Model / System Key Features Link
CATT Character-based Tashkeel Transformer, SOTA results Paper
Fine-Tashkeel Fine-tuned ByT5, 40% WER reduction Paper
Sadeed Small language model for diacritization Paper
Shakkala Neural vocalization using bidirectional LSTM GitHub
Mishkal Rule-based diacritizer with dictionary lookups GitHub

Datasets

Dataset Description Link
Tashkeela Arabic diacritization corpus GitHub
arabic-text-diacritization Benchmark dataset with systems comparison GitHub

πŸ—£οΈ Dialect Identification

Resources for identifying and classifying Arabic dialects.

Shared Tasks

Task Description Link
NADI 2025 Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing (8-way dialect + ASR) Web
NADI 2024 Fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Paper
NADI Shared Tasks Ongoing series of Arabic DID shared tasks Web

Datasets

Dataset Description Link
QADI Twitter-based multi-class dialect classification HF
Arabic POS Dialect POS tagging in Arabic dialects HF
Arabic Dialects to MSA Parallel dialect-MSA corpus HF
Casablanca Multidialectal Arabic speech dataset (NADI 2025) Paper

πŸ“Š Key Datasets

πŸ“ Text Datasets

Dataset Description Link
masader Largest public catalogue of Arabic NLP datasets (600+) GitHub
101 Billion Arabic Words Massive Arabic web corpus HF
ArabicWeb24 39B+ tokens of high-quality Arabic web content HF
ArabicText-Large 743K articles for LLM training HF
Arabic Billion Words Abu El-Khair corpus: 5M+ articles, 1.5B+ words HF
Arabic Tweets 41GB+ of Arabic tweets (~4B words) HF
Wojood Nested NER corpus (550K tokens) GitHub
CIDAR Culturally relevant instruction dataset (10K pairs) HF
Arabic_Function_Calling First Arabic function calling dataset (50K+ samples) HF
ArabicaQA Large-scale Arabic Question Answering GitHub
Mixed Arabic Datasets (MAD) Community-driven diverse Arabic texts HF
Arabic-OpenHermes-2.5 Arabic OpenHermes instruction dataset HF
Alpaca Arabic Instruct Arabic Alpaca instruction dataset HF
Rasaif Classical Arabic-English parallel texts (24 books) HF
Shifaa Medical Arabic medical consultation dataset HF
Shifaa Mental Health Arabic mental health consultations HF
Arabic Reasoning Dataset 9.2K instruction-based reasoning QA pairs HF
Gazelle Arabic writing assistance dataset Paper
arabic-hate-speech-superset Comprehensive hate speech detection HF
ArabicCorpus2B 1.9B word Arabic corpus HF
The Arabic E-Book Corpus 1,745 books (81.5M words) HF
BAREC Corpus Arabic Readability Assessment HF
palm Human-created Arabic instruction dataset HF
dialogue-arabic-dialects Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf dialect dialogues GitHub
STMC Saudi Tweets Mega Corpus (141M+ Saudi dialect tweets) HF
KFUPM Arabic AI Text Detection Machine-generated Arabic text across multiple LLMs HF
Egyptian Dialogue 4,322 Egyptian Arabic-English parallel pairs from TV subtitles HF
NileChat LHV-Egypt Egyptian dialect dataset for LLM pre-training HF
NileChat Arabizi-Egypt Egyptian Arabizi dataset for LLM pre-training HF

🎀 Speech Datasets

Dataset Description Link
ClArTTS Classical Arabic TTS dataset HF
Arabic Speech Corpus South Levantine Arabic (Damascian accent) HF
Arabic-English Code-Switching Code-switching speech from YouTube HF
Egyptian Arabic ASR Clean ~72 hours of Egyptian Arabic speech HF
MADIS5 Spoken Arabic dialects HF
SADA Saudi Audio Dataset: 668h from 57 TV shows, multi-dialect (SDAIA) HF
SADA22 (MSA) MSA subset of SADA, Khaliji speech HF
SawtArabi Arabic speech dataset HF

πŸ–ΌοΈ Vision & Multimodal Datasets

Dataset Description Link
PEARL Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset HF
Arabic-Image-Captioning_100M 100 million Arabic image captions HF
Calliar Online Arabic calligraphy (2500 samples) GitHub
arabic-img2md 15K PDF pages paired with Markdown HF
Arabic-OCR-Dataset 1M+ Arabic OCR samples HF
Arabic-VLM-Full-Pearl 309K multimodal examples for VLM training HF

πŸ”§ Essential Tools & Libraries

βš™οΈ Toolkits & Preprocessing

Tool Description Link
camel_tools Suite of Arabic NLP tools (morphology, POS, NER, etc.) GitHub
Farasa Fast and accurate Arabic text processing toolkit Web
SinaTools Open source toolkit by SinaLab (Python APIs, CLI) GitHub
Qalsadi Arabic morphological analyzer and lemmatizer GitHub
PyArabic Python package for Arabic text manipulation GitHub
tnkeeh Arabic text cleaning, normalization, preprocessing GitHub
Maha Text processing library for Arabic text GitHub
Mishkal Arabic text diacritizer (rule-based) GitHub
arabicprocess Python library for Arabic preprocessing PyPI
MADAMIRA Morphological analysis, diacritization, POS tagging Web

πŸ“š Specialized Libraries

Library Task Link
klaam Speech Recognition, Classification, TTS GitHub
tkseem Arabic Tokenization GitHub
arabic-stop-words Largest list of Arabic stop words GitHub
qawafi Arabic poetry analysis GitHub
arabic_vocalizer Deep-learning diacritization (ONNX format) GitHub

🌍 Translation

Tool Description Link
opus-mt-en-ar English β†’ Arabic neural MT HF
opus-mt-ar-en Arabic β†’ English neural MT (12.4M+ downloads) HF

πŸ“„ Research Papers & Conferences

🎀 Conferences & Workshops

Conference Year Link
ArabicNLP 2025 2025 Web
ArabicNLP 2024 2024 ACL
ArabicNLP 2023 2023 ACL
Arabic NLP Winter School 2025 Web
AbjadNLP Workshop 2025-2026 Web
OSACT Ongoing Web

πŸ“– Foundational & Survey Papers

  1. The Landscape of Arabic Large Language Models (2025) [1]
  2. AraBERT: Transformer-based Model for Arabic Language Understanding (Antoun et al., 2020) [2]
  3. The Interplay of Variant, Size, and Task Type in Arabic Pre-trained Language Models (Inoue et al., 2021) [3]
  4. ARBERT & MARBERT: Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Arabic (Abdul-Mageed et al., 2021) [4]
  5. Jais and Jais-chat: Arabic-Centric Foundation and Instruction-Tuned LLMs (Sengupta et al., 2023) [5]
  6. Wojood: Nested Arabic Named Entity Corpus and Recognition (Jarrar et al., 2022) [6]
  7. Deep Learning for Arabic NLP: A Survey (Al-Ayyoub et al., 2018) [7]
  8. Evaluating Arabic LLMs: A Survey of Benchmarks, Methods, and Gaps (Alzubaidi et al., 2025) [8]

πŸ†• Recent Papers (2024-2025)

  • Swan and ArabicMTEB β€” Dialect-Aware, Cross-Lingual Language Understanding (Bhatia et al., 2024) [9]
  • GATE β€” General Arabic Text Embedding for Enhanced STS (Nacar et al., 2025) [10]
  • A Survey of LLMs for Arabic Language and its Dialects (Mashaabi et al., 2024) [11]
  • Hate speech detection in Arabic β€” corpus design and evaluation (2024) [12]
  • NADI 2024 β€” Fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task (2024) [13]
  • CATT β€” Character-based Arabic Tashkeel Transformer (2024) [14]
  • ArabianGPT β€” Native Arabic GPT-based LLM (2024) [15]
  • SambaLingo β€” Teaching LLMs New Languages (2024) [16]
  • SaudiBERT β€” BERT Pretrained on Saudi Dialect Corpora (2024) [17]
  • ALLaM β€” Large Language Models for Arabic and English (SDAIA & IBM, 2024) [18]
  • EgyBERT β€” BERT Pretrained on Egyptian Dialect Corpora (2024) [19]

πŸŽ“ Tutorials & Learning Resources

🏫 Academic Programs

Resource Description Link
Arabic NLP Winter School Two-day intensive at MBZUAI (Jan 2025) Web
ArabicNLP Conference Annual ACL-affiliated conference by SIGARAB Web
AbjadNLP Workshop NLP for languages using Arabic script Web
SDAIA Academy Saudi AI & data science training programs Web
KAUST Academy (AI Specialization) Free AI training for Saudi nationals Web

πŸ’» Online Resources

Resource Description Link
Hugging Face NLP Course Free NLP course (applicable to Arabic models) HF
AUB MIND Lab Arabic-NLP Demo Interactive demo for Arabic NLP tasks HF
MoroccoAI Darija Resources Curated Moroccan Arabic dialect NLP resources GitHub
NNLP-IL Arabic Resources Comprehensive Arabic NLP resource list GitHub

πŸ›οΈ Research Institutions

Academic and government research labs driving Arabic NLP innovation.

Institution Country Focus Link
KAUST (CEMSE) πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ Saudi Arabia Generative AI center, Arabic NLP research, sentiment analysis Web
SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center (JRCAI) πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ Saudi Arabia Arabic AI text detection, Arabic NLP datasets HF
Prince Sultan University (RIOTU Lab) πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ Saudi Arabia ArabianGPT, Arabic IoT/robotics AI HF
King Saud University πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ Saudi Arabia SaudiBERT, Saudi dialect corpora (STMC, SFC) HF
Nile University πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ Egypt AI research, M.Sc. in AI co-designed with MIT/IBM Web
Ain Shams University πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ Egypt Arabic NLP, sentiment analysis, NER research Web
MBZUAI πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ UAE AIN, Atlas-Chat, ArabicMMLU, KITAB-Bench Web
CAMeL Lab (NYU Abu Dhabi) πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ UAE CAMeLBERT, camel_tools, morphological analysis Web
UBC-NLP πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canada MARBERT, AraT5, JASMINE, Swan, Palm dataset GitHub
AUB MIND Lab πŸ‡±πŸ‡§ Lebanon AraBERT, AraGPT2, AraELECTRA GitHub
QCRI πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡¦ Qatar Farasa, Fanar LLM, Arabic POS tagging Web
SinaLab πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ Palestine SinaTools, Wojood NER corpus GitHub
ARBML 🌍 Community masader (600+ datasets), klaam, tkseem, qawafi GitHub

🏭 Companies & Startups

Companies and organizations building Arabic AI/NLP products and services.

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ United Arab Emirates

Company Focus Notable Products Link
G42 AI holding company, Arabic LLMs Jais LLM, enterprise AI solutions Web
Inception AI Arabic-centric foundation models Jais model family (with Cerebras) Web
Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Open-source LLMs, research Falcon LLM family Web
Saal.ai Cognitive AI solutions Arabic NLP, speech, generative AI Web
Arabot Conversational AI for Arabic Arabic NLP chatbot engine Web
Arabic.AI (Tarjama) Arabic-first autonomous AI Pronoia Arabic LLM, Agentic AI platform Web

πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ Saudi Arabia

Company Focus Notable Products Link
SDAIA Sovereign AI, national data authority ALLaM model, SADA dataset, NCAI, BALSAM benchmark Web
HUMAIN PIF-backed full-stack AI company ALLaM 34B, HUMAIN Chat, 8PB Arabic training data Web
Elm Digital transformation, gov AI (PIF-backed) Nuha Arabic LLM, legal AI assistant, gov platform Web
Misraj AI Arabic-first AI ecosystem Kawn LLM, Baseer OCR, Mutarjim, Workforces, SeamlessAPI Web
Mozn Enterprise AI, Arabic NLU OSOS Arabic NLU platform, FOCAL compliance suite Web
Unifonic Conversational AI platform Arabic-first CX Intelligence, AI chatbots Web
Lucidya AI customer experience analytics Arabic social listening, sentiment analysis Web
Hudhud AI Arabic conversational AI (no-code SaaS) Saudi-accent chatbots, Arabic-first customer engagement Web
Hazen.ai AI traffic safety & computer vision Deep learning road safety, seatbelt/phone detection Web
Future Look ITC (FLITC) Arabic-native AI solutions, venture studio LABEAH, Smart Hire, Rayee Media, Nabadat Web
NAMAA-Space Arabic NLP models hub Qari-OCR, EgypTalk-ASR, Masrawy translator, GLiNER Arabic NER HF
Wittify.ai Conversational AI for Arabic Interactive Arabic AI agents Web

πŸ’‘ Saudi Arabia's AI ecosystem: Saudi Arabia leads Arabic LLM development with 53+ Arabic language models identified by Q1 2025. Key initiatives include HUMAIN ($5B+ AWS partnership, NVIDIA AI factories), Vision 2030 AI Strategy (targeting 20,000 AI specialists, 300+ AI startups, $20B investment), and SDAIA Academy/SAMAI (training 1M citizens in AI).

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ Egypt

Company Focus Notable Products Link
ITIDA / MCIT National AI authority, sovereign models Karnak LLM, SIA AI tutor, AcQua NLP, BelMasry, Torgoman Web
Intella Arabic speech AI intelligence Arabic STT across 25+ dialects (95.7% accuracy), Ziila digital human Web
WideBot AI Arabic-first conversational AI AQL Arabic LLM, chatbots, voicebots, AI agents Web
DXwand Generative AI for Arabic business ORXTRA platform, Arabic dialect chatbots, 20+ LLM support Web
Crowd Analyzer Arabic social media monitoring Arabic NLP analytics, sentiment analysis, media monitoring Web
Synapse Analytics AI for financial inclusion ML-powered credit scoring, Arabic data analytics Web
Convertedin AI marketing automation Arabic/English e-commerce personalization, $3M funded Web
Kngine Semantic search & NLP Arabic semantic search, data mining, knowledge engine Web
Monta AI Enterprise AI solutions LLM & RAG-based Arabic business automation Web
Elves Conversational commerce Arabic AI-assisted concierge, human-in-the-loop ML Web

πŸ’‘ Egypt's AI ecosystem: Egypt unveiled Karnak, its national LLM (30-80B params, highest-ranking Arabic LLM in its class), and launched the National AI Strategy 2025-2030 targeting $42.7B in AI economic value, 30,000 AI specialists, and 250+ AI startups. Karnak powers SIA (AI education tutor), AcQua (NLP call auditing), BelMasry (colloquial Arabic NLP engines), and Torgoman (specialized translation).

🌍 International (with Arabic focus)

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SILMA AI - Arabic-first LLMs SILMA LLMs, Arabic Broad Benchmark Web
Cohere Canada Multilingual LLMs Command R Arabic, RAG optimization Web
Mistral AI France Multilingual LLMs Mistral Saba (Arabic-optimized) Web
SambaNova Systems USA Arabic language adaptation SambaLingo Arabic models Web
Mawdoo3 Jordan / Saudi Arabic AI & content, NLP toolkit Arabic LLMs, largest Arabic website, Saudi expansion Web
Maqsam Jordan / MENA Arabic speech AI, call center AI Arabic dialect STT, AI voice bots, surpasses Google/Microsoft Web

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[10] Nacar, O., et al. (2025). GATE: General Arabic Text Embedding. arXiv:2505.24581. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24581

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[16] SambaLingo: Teaching LLMs New Languages. (2024). arXiv:2404.05829. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05829

[17] SaudiBERT: A Large Language Model Pretrained on Saudi Dialect Corpora. (2024). arXiv:2405.06239. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06239

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