A Muslim marriage app for the Middle East and its diaspora.
From the Gulf to the Levant and Egypt, marriage across the Middle East has always run through family and tribal networks — and increasingly, through a wider search that includes apps like Zawaj, especially for the region's large expatriate and diaspora communities.
Tribe, family, and an increasingly global search.
Across much of the Gulf (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman), family and tribal reputation still shape a large part of who gets introduced to whom. In the Levant (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine) and Egypt, family involvement is similarly central, though customs around courtship and engagement vary widely by country and community.
What's changed is scale and mobility. Millions of Arabs live and work outside their home country — across the Gulf itself, in Europe, North America, and beyond — and a purely local family network often can't reach far enough for that diaspora. Zawaj gives that wider search a structure that still leaves plenty of room for family involvement once a match is found.
Built for a mobile, family-conscious community.
Search across borders
Whether you're in the Gulf, the Levant, Egypt, or the wider diaspora, filter by location and openness to relocating.
Family involvement, respected
Bring in a wali or family once a conversation is worth introducing — see our guide on involving your wali.
Privacy while you search
Explore matches on your own terms first, especially valuable given how closely-connected many Middle Eastern communities are.
Join Muslims across the Middle East searching with intention.
Download Zawaj free — available across the Middle East.
