The Arab Families Working Group (AFWG) is a collective of fifteen scholars from universities, NGOs and research foundations whose work focuses on youth and families in Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt and their diasporas. Founded in 2001, AFWG is committed to advancing the state of empirical and theoretical knowledge on Arab families and articulating research processes and outcomes with practitioners and policy makers. AFWG projects include comparative, transnational, interdisciplinary, and collaborative work on the three countries and diasporic Arab families in the United States and Canada.

AFWG is co-hosted at The American University in Cairo (Egypt) and the University of California, Davis (USA). An institutional network has contributed to the work of AFWG, including the American University in Cairo (Social Research Center and Institute for Gender and Women's Studies); the Population Council, Cairo; the Lebanese American University, Beirut (Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World); Birzeit University, West Bank (Institute of Women's Studies); and the University of California, Davis (Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, and Middle East/South Asia Studies).

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