The Arabic Linguistics Forum fosters academic and scholarly exchange on the linguistics of the Arabic language family, for researchers from across Europe and the Middle East, and beyond. Previous conferences took place in Essex (2015), York (2016), SOAS (2018), Leeds (2020), York (2023) and Vienna (2025). Future conferences will run every other year, alternating with AIDA. The Forum welcomes contributions from all areas of Arabic linguistics, including: phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, historical linguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics.

We’ll provide an update regarding the next conference in the series – the seventh Arabic Linguistics Forum to be organised in 2027 – as soon as we have more information.

For general enquiries please contact: arabiclinguisticsforum@gmail.com