diff --git a/whisperx/alignment.py b/whisperx/alignment.py
index e4950f9..5549d8b 100644
--- a/whisperx/alignment.py
+++ b/whisperx/alignment.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_HF = {
     "nl": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-dutch",
     "uk": "Yehor/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-uk-with-small-lm",
     "pt": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-portuguese",
+    "ar": "elgeish/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic",
 }