The Department upgraded and recognized as research Centre of Arabic, Calicut University in May 2019 with the University Order No (U.O.No. 13882/2019/Admn)

The department of Arabic offers PhD programme in the following thrust areas: 

• Arabic Literature
• Arabic Journalism
• Linguistics, Rhetoric and Prosody
• Indo Arabic Literature
• Classical Studies and Literature
• Diaspora Literature
• Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic literature
• Print, Visual and New Media Arabic
• Subaltern Studies