Csoma de Kőrös Society

The Csoma de Kőrös Society is the oldest established scholarly forum of North African and Asian studies in Hungary. It delivers monthly public lectures and publishes two periodicals: Keletkutás in Hungarian and The Arabist: Budapest Studies in Arabic in English. The Society was established in 1920 by the then prime minister Count Pál Teleki, then, after a twenty-year interval, it was reestablished by the vice president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Lajos Ligeti.