The Handbook of Multilingualism, Identity, and Language Endangerment in Africa

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 was previously the editor-in-chief of Companions in Iranian Languages as Linguistics at Mouton.  He has also published on Iranianfolkloric traditions.

Evgeniya Gutova is interested in all aspects of Berber linguistics, Arabic/Berber bilingualism, and different outcomes of language contact. She is currently researching Arabic influence on Senhaja Berber Tense, Aspect, and Modality as a researcher at the Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø, Norway). She has also researched multilingualism in the Moroccan diaspora community in Spain as a researcher at the University of Navara in Pamplona, Spain. Her PhD thesis from the Sorbonne University (Paris, France) is a polylectal grammar of Senhaja Berber (northern Morocco), while her MA thesis at Leiden University (Leiden, the Netherlands) examined Kabyle Berber manuscripts from Algeria written in the Arabic script.