This handbook presents a comprehensive collation of chapters on North African Arabic. The book explores a multitude of angles through which the diachronic and synchronic intricacies of North African varieties can be examined. Both extensive and diverse at the thematic and theoretical levels as well as representative of the variety of dialects and linguistic trends adopted thereof, the book covers myriad topics, sub-topics, and peripheral studies that contribute to the field of linguistics under the rubric of North African, and its different varieties, deepening our understanding of the workings of North African as a ‘genre’, and a linguistic phenomenon. The goal is to achieve a better understanding of the issues in the various components of the languages and dialects - phonology, morphological, syntactic, semantic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic - as well as their theoretical and typological significance and implications. Relevant to linguists and cultural scholars focused on the North African region, this is must-have collection within the Arabic language oeuvre. 

Karim Bensoukas is a senior professor of linguistics (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 visiting Fulbright scholar (1999-2000, 2005, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and 2023, Indiana University Bloomington, USA). His research is centered on phonology, morphology and the phonology-morphology/ morphology-syntax interfaces, with special focus on Moroccan languages, mainly Amazigh and Moroccan Arabic. His research interests extend to the sociology of language and university pedagogy. Karim Bensoukas is the winner of the 2014 IRCAM-Rabat Award for Research and Scientific Thinking and the President of the IRCAM 2022 Prize.

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.