Some notable Arabists from the Middle East worth mentioning are Haim Zafrani in Morocco, Ahmad Zaki Pasha in Egypt, Tarif Khalidi in Lebanon, Zvi Elpeleg in Israel and Mehmet Hakkı Suçin in Turkey.
In his book Reel Bad Arabs, Jack Shaheen lists this as one of the most Anti-Arabist films produced by the United States film industry.
Hermann Zotenberg (1836, Silesia – 1894, Paris) was an orientalist and Arabist.
Ignaty Yulianovich Krachkovsky (Russian: Игна́тий Юлиа́нович Крачко́вский (4 (16) March 1883, Vilnius — 24 January 1951, Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet Arabist, academician of the Russian Academy of Science (since 1921; since 1925 Academy of Science of the USSR).
After leaving school Jonibek Murodov received the first higher education in Modern Humanitarian Academy in Khujand city, the linguist-Arabist specialty.
Many were also what the arabist Mikel de Epalza calls "Neo-Mozarabs", that is Northern Europeans who had come to the Iberian Peninsula and picked up Arabic, thereby entering the Mozarabic community.