Aziz Tezel is an independent researcher affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University. His research interests are etymological problems (including phonological and morphological changes), homonymy, loanwords with cultural signfications, the names of flora in Surayt/Turoyo, the emergence of and changes in quadriradical verbal formations, comparative Semitics, language and cultural contacts between the languages in the Middle East region.