Alireza Korangy received his Ph.D. 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 conducted extensive research and published on Iranian and Persian linguistics.  Alireza 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. Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari is a Professor of linguistics and Persian at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. As an expert in the field of Teaching Persian to Non-Persian Speakers, he is a co-author of the well-known Series Fārsī Bīyāmūzīm (Let's Learn Persian, 2001), and Persian for Dummies (2017) as well as his Tense in Persian (2002), and Essays on Typology of Iranian Languages (2019). His books in press are Kinship Vocabulary in the Iranian Languages (Yerevan University Press), and A Grammar of Lori (with Alireza Korangy, MGL). He has contributed to many edited volumes in linguistics, including Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian (2020).