Youssef is a member of the Association pour l'avancement des études islamiques, Collège de France (Paris).[6] He is also listed as a member of the International Sociological Association (ISA), L'Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Francaise, the International Brecht Society, based in the USA, the Egyptian Association of Plastic Art Critics and the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).[7] Magdi Youssef adheres to the Egyptian writers' union and the German Schriftstellerverband.[8]