Alireza Korangy received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His field of research is classical Persian and Arabic philology with a special emphasis on poetics, rhetoric, folklore and linguistics. He has done extensive research and published on Iranian and Persian linguistics. He has also published on Iranian folkloric traditions. Dr Korangy currently teaches in the Faculty of Humanities and Civilization Studies at the American University in Beirut. He has previously taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Colorado, and Harvard University. Karim Bensoukas, Professeur de l’Enseignement Supérieur, is currently teaching in the Department of English at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He holds a Doctorat d’Etat in linguistics (defended in 2001). He is a former Fulbright scholar (1999-2000 and 2005, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA). His research is centered on phonology, morphology and the phonology-morphology/ morphology-syntax interfaces. His authored and co-authored publications in these areas focus on Moroccan languages, mainly Amazigh and Moroccan Arabic. He has also edited and co-edited numerous collections of papers and translated a book on Amazigh sociolinguistics. His research interests extend to the sociology of language and university pedagogy, particularly the integration of ICT in teaching. Karim Bensoukas is the winner of the 2014 IRCAM Award for Research and Scientific Thinking.
