Maria Bulakh, Ph.D. (2005), RSUH, is an assistant professor of Ethiopian and Semitic studies at HSE University. She has published extensively on Ethiopian and MSA linguistics, notably, The T-Stems in Soqotri. A Contribution to Semitic Detransitivising Derivation (Brill, 2024). She is a field researcher on Soqotra since 2017.

Leonid Kogan, Ph.D. (2001), RSUH, Habil. (2020), HSE University, is head of the Near Eastern department at this university. His books and articles deal with a wide scope of linguistic and philological topics in the Semitic domain, including early Akkadian, Ethiopian, and MSA. Co-editor of the Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature (Brill, 2014 and 2018). He is a field researcher on Soqotra since 2010.