Hamid Hassani

Hamid Hassani or Hamid Hasani (Persian: حمید حسنی‎) (Persian pronunciation: [hæˈmiːd-e hæsæˈniː]) (born November 23, 1968 in Saqqez, Iranian Kurdistan province, Iran) is an Iranian scholar and researcher, concentrated on Persian lexicography, dictionary-making, and Persian corpus linguistics, also an expert on Persian, Standard Arabic, and Kurdish prosody (metrics/ versification).

Hamid Hassani
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Born (1968-11-23) November 23, 1968
Saqqez, Kordestan, Iran
Alma materUniversity of Tehran, PhD, Persian language and literature
Occupationlexicographer, corpus-maker, editor, Persian, Kurdish, and Arabic prosody expert
Years active1991 - present (7 books, 120 papers, 4 international lectures)
Works
7 books, 120 papers, and 4 international lectures
Awards
  • 2010: for the book Persian Beginner's Dictionary (in Persian); rewarded at "The 28th Iranian Best Yearbook Festival", October 2010, at the "Language Field", Tehran;
  • 2009: for reviewing the book A Dictionary of Proper Nouns [/ General Culture] (in Persian) (by Gholām-Hossein Sadri-Afshār et al., Tehran, 2005)"; the review has been published in Lexicography Journal (in Persian), Vol. I, No. 1, December 2007, pp. 270-279 (Tehran); rewarded at "The 6th Festival of the Best Book Review (of the Year 2008) at the field "Linguistics", Tehran, November 2009

He lives in Tehran since 1987.

Hassani has reached a PhD degree in Persian language and literature from the University of Tehran. He has published 7 books and more than 120 papers on Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish language and literature.[1] Hassani also has published some works on Persian lexicography, corpus-making, and frequency-concordance dictionaries.[2]

Hassani has given four international lectures: two lectures in English and Persian in Oslo, Norway (September 1997, at the University of Oslo, Blindern and Kloden Institute, respectively), and two lectures in Persian and Tajik-Persian in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (March 2006) at the Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences and Tajik State National University (in Tajik language: Донишгоҳи миллии Тоҷикистон).[3]

He also has participated in publishing more than 150 books and nearly 10 titles of magazines/ journals as a member of editorial board, an editor, a copy editor, and/or a proofreader.

He works as a senior researcher at The Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Departments of "Terminology" and "Encyclopædia of Persian Language and Literature", Tehran, Iran.

Publications, international lectures, and awards

A. Books in Persian:

  • 2009: Published Persian Beginner's Dictionary, (in Persian: Farhang-e Zabān-āmūz-e Fārsī, Sat.h-e Moqaddamātī), with Behruz Safarzadeh, Tehran, Iran Language Institute (ILI), xvi + 1210 + iv pp (ISBN 964-8699-76-3);
  • 2005: Published Persian Today Corpus: The Most Frequent Words of Today Persian, based on a one-million-word corpus (in Persian: Vāže-hā-ye Porkārbord-e Fārsi-ye Emrūz), Tehran, Iran Language Institute (ILI), 322 pp (ISBN 964-8699-32-1);
  • 2004: Published Arabic Poetry: Prosody and Rhyme (in Persian: `Arūz-o Qāfiyeh-ye `Arabī), Tehran, `Elmī va Farhangī, v + 144 pp (ISBN 964-445-500-2);
  • 2004: Published Madārej-ol-Balāgheh in Rhetoric (in Persian: Madārej-ol-Balāgheh dar `Elm-e Badī`), by Rezā-Qolī Khān Hedāyat, edited and annotated by Hamid Hassani (co-editor: Behruz Safarzadeh), Tehran, The Academy of Persian Language and Literature, xix + 164 pp (ISBN 964-7531-35-4);
  • 2001: Published A Glossary of Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran (in Persian: Farhang-e Mowzū`i-e Qānūn-e Asāsi-e Jomhūri-e Eslāmi-e Irān), Tehran, Rowzaneh 162 pp (ISBN 964-334-089-9);
  • 1998: Published Mer'āt-ol-Khiyāl Who's Who (in Persian: Tazkereh-ye Mer'āt-ol-Khiyāl), by Shīr-`Alī Khān Lūdī, edited and annotated by Hamid Hassani (co-editor: Behruz Safarzadeh), Tehran, Rowzaneh, xxi + 370 pp (ISBN 964-6176-06-2);
  • 1992: Published Poetry of Nima (a research on poetic meters and forms of Nima Yooshij) (in Persian: Musīqi-e She`r-e Nīmā (tahqīq-ī dar owzān va qāleb-hā-ye she`ri-e Nīmā-Yūshīj), Tehran: Ketāb-e Zamān 272 pp.

B. Papers in Persian:

  • 1991–present: Published more than 95 papers in Persian on Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish language and literature.

C. International lectures in Persian and English:

  • 2006: "The One-Million-Word Corpus of Today Persian" (in Persian: "Peykare-ye Yek-Miliyon-Loghati-e Fārsi-e Emrūz", held at The Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences, 5th International Congress of Persian and Tajik Scholars, Tajikistan, Dushanbe, March 2006;
  • 2006: "Necessity of making a today Tajik linguistic corpus" (in Tajik-Persian: "Zarūrat-i girdovari-i yak paykara-yi zabonī baroyi Tojiki-i imrūz", held at Tajik State National University (in Tajik language: Донишгоҳи миллии Тоҷикистон), Tajikistan, Dushanbe, March 2006;
  • 1997: "Poetry of Nima-Yooshij, Free Verse or Blank Verse?" (in English), held at University of Oslo (Blindern), Oslo, Norway, September 1997;
  • 1997: "Persian Prosody and Necessity of Professional Studies" (in Persian: "'Arūz-e Fārsi va zarūrat-e tahqīq-e takhassosī dar ān" (in Persian), held at Kloden Institute, Oslo, Norway, September 1997.

D. Awards (some):

  • 2010: Rewarded at "The 28th Iranian Best Yearbook Festival", October 2010, at the "Language Field", Tehran; for the book Persian Beginner's Dictionary, (in Persian: Farhang-e Zabān-āmūz-e Fārsī, Sat.h-e Moqaddamātī), with Behruz Safarzadeh, Tehran, Iran Language Institute (ILI), xvi + 1210 + iv pp;
  • 2009: Rewarded at "The 6th Festival of the Best Book Review (of the Year 2008) at the field "Linguistics", Tehran, November 2009; for reviewing the book "A Dictionary of Proper Nouns [/ General Culture]" (by Gholām-Hossein Sadri-Afshār, in collaboration with Nasrin & Nastaran Hakami, Tehran, 2005)"; the paper has been published in Lexicography Journal (Persian: مجلّۀ فرهنگ‌نویسی‎), Vol. I, No. 1, December 2007, pp. 270–279 (Tehran)

Projects to be done

References
  1. "Linguist List (International Linguistics Community Online; Indiana University, USA)".
  2. "Hamid Hassani | University of Tehran - Academia.edu". Tehran.academia.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  3. "Sign Up - LinkedIn". linkedin.com. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

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