Joseph (Yossi) Chetrit is Professor Emeritus of Socio-Pragmatics, French Linguistics, and Judeo-Arabic Linguistics at the University of Haifa. He conducts research on several aspects of Jewish culture in North Africa: Judeo-Arabic dialects, Judeo-Berber, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic poetry, Andalusi music, Haskala, identity, proverbs, etc. He has published numerous books and articles on these matters, including Diglossie, Hybridation et Diversité interne… (Peeters, 2007); Linguistic Treasuries and Textures: Socio-Pragmatic Studies on North African Judeo-Arabic… (Bialik Institute, 2009, Hebrew); The Judeo-Arabic Dialects in Morocco: Their Structures, Uses and Diversity (Pardes Publishing, 2023, Hebrew); and The Destruction of Jewish Life in Morocco under the Forced Conversions of the Almohads and its Restoration (Pardes Publishing, 2023, Hebrew).