Other Research Centers in the Arab countries

• American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS)
  AIYS is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). AIYS is the only American interdisciplinary academic organization active on the Arabian peninsula. It is the primary link between the American academic community and the Yemeni government as well as the Yemeni academic community.
• The Americian Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
  ARCE is the professional society in the United States of specialists on Egypt of all periods. It is also a consortium of universities and museums that support archaeological and academic research in Egypt and whose membership is open to the public. ARCE operates out of offices in New York City and Cairo. ARCE publishes the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), which is an annual, and the Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt (NARCE), published three times a year.
• Le Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ)
  The Centre for Economic, Juridical and Social Studies & Documentation (CEDEJ) is a multidisciplinary research centre in social and human sciences focused on contemporary Egypt and Sudan. CEDEJ is based in Cairo with a branch at Khartoum University, Sudan. A member of the network of research institutes run by the Division of Scientific, University and Research Cooperation at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CEDEJ is associated with the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) since 1985 and is at present one of its Human and Social Sciences Department research units. CEDEJ conducts research in political sciences and sociology, juridical studies, economy, urban and Sudanese studies.
• Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain (CERMOC)
  CERMOC is a social science research center administratively dependent upon the human social sciences and archeology unit of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Directorate of Cultural, Scientific, and Technical Relations. Founded in Beirut in 1977, CERMOC opened an annex in Amman in 1988.
• Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis (CEMAT)
  The Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis (CEMAT) is the overseas research center of the American Institute for Maghribi Studies (AIMS). CEMAT offers to AIMS members quiet office space, a specialized library with works primarily in English on the Maghrib an d the Middle East, a conference room, and administrative support. CEMAT organizes lectures and roundtables regularly, and an annual conference.
• French Center for Yemeni Studies (CFEY)
  The mission of the French Center for Yemeni Studies (CFEY) is to initiate, coordinate and to support the works of the French, Yemeni or foreign teams, in the Social Sciences and Archaeology on Yemen and its neighboring countries (Oman, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea). The CFEY collaborates in its research missions with several Yemeni, French and/or foreign academic institutions.
• l'Institut Français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient (IFAPO)
  Founded by Henri Seyrig in October 1946 as the French Archeological Institute of Beirut and renamed in 1977, IFAPO was originally a center for documentation and academic discussions bringing French, other European, and Near Eastern colleagues together. One impact of the Lebanese war, however, was that IFAPO members spread into Syria and Jordan and developed excavation sites in all three countries.

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