The department aims to achieve some objectives, the most important of which are:
Learning about the different cultures of the peoples of the Semitic and Islamic languages, to find out the latest means by which enables us to understand and study them and studying their history while linking the past to the present to understand contemporary political events.
Contributing to the field of community service by strengthening the bonds of friendship between Egypt and those peoples.
Graduating a student who can conquer the labor markets in various fields such as translation, tourism, media, antiquities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and various security and political bodies.
Preparing translators in various languages to meet the different needs of the country, and working on graduating students who are good at Interpretation those East Semitic languages.
Contributing to the preparation of theses and specialized scientific research.
Creating a new generation capable of understanding what is going on around them and contributing to building bridges of communication with some of the governments of those peoples.
Providing new job opportunities for young graduates in the diplomatic body and in the field of Interpretation, various media outlets, including radio, television, and satellite stations, foreign investment companies, the field of teaching and outside Egypt.
Enhancing the linguistic and literary connection between these languages and the Arabic language through the methods of linguistics and comparative literature