Werner Arnold: Seminar fur Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Heidelberg University, Germany Louis Boumans: University of Leiden, The Netherlands Fadila Brahimi: Arabistik, Bayreuth University, Germany Dominique Caubet: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France Ignacio Ferrando: Departamento de Estudios Arabes, University of Cadiz, Spain Jidda Hassan: Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria Utz Maas: Fachbereich Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Osnabruck, Germany Jonathan Owens: Bayreuth University, Germany Rafael Talmon: Department of Arabic, University of Haifa, Israel Paul Wexler: Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel Anna Zelkina: Department of Religious Studies, Open University, Milton Keynes, England