Philology is a refereed scientific bi-annual journal issued by the Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, and supervised by a number of academics and specialists from various universities worldwide.

Philology was founded by a group of senior professors in the Faculty of Al-Alsun, where the first issue was published in 1983 to achieve the faculty world leadership. This is also attained through publishing refereed scientific research at the local, regional, and international levels.

All research papers are refereed by a committee of specialists with research experience and a distinguished scientific profile.

The journal publishes research papers in the fields of literature, linguistics, and translation provided that they are written in one of the approved languages ​​of the faculty: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Czech, Chinese, Hebrew, Amharic, Persian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Swahili.

• All articles published in Philology are available online on the journal's official website https://alsun.journals.ekb.eg.
• Hard copies can be obtained through the Scientific Publishing Office at the Faculty of Al-Alsun - Ain Shams University - Cairo - Egypt.
• Philology is an open-access journal; all content is freely available to users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, share, print (without commercial purposes), search, and link to the articles, without prior permission from the publisher or the author
• Self-archiving is permitted, which means that authors may upload the published PDF version of their articles to academic and institutional repositories. Authors can also post their articles on their websites according to the Creative Commons license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Philology is certified by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities. It is enlisted in the classification of national journals, issued regularly by the Supreme Council of Universities and it received the Impact factor 7 in the classification of July 22.

The Journal was indexed in several databases:

In 2019, Philology was added to the Arabic Citation Index (ARCI), an index associated with the Web of Science database (Clarivate Arabic Citation).