Hamid Hassani

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image_size = 150px
name = Hamid Hassani
birth_date = birth date|1968|11|23|mf=y (age 39)
birth_place = Saqqez, Kordestan, Iran flagicon|Iran
residence = Tehran, Iran
occupation = lexicographer, corpus-maker, Persian/ Kurdish/ Arabic prosodist
works = six books, thirty five papers and lectures
yearsactive = 1991 - present (6 books, 35 papers and lectures)
updated = July 6, 2007

Hamid Hassani or Hamid Hasani (حميد حسني in Persian) (born November 23, 1968 in Saqqez (سقّز), Kurdistan province, Iran) is an Iranian scholar and teacher, an expert on Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish prosody (metrics).

Graduated from The University of Tehran, 1992, he has published 6 books and 35 papers on Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish language and Literature. His last book (published in Tehran, 2005) is "The Most Frequent Words of Today's Persian" (including over 8,000 frequent words; based on a one-million-word corpus).

He has given two lectures in English and Persian in Oslo, Norway (September 1997 at the University of Oslo, Blindern and Kloden Institute, respectively) and a lecture in Persian in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (March 2006) at the Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences.

He works now at The Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Terminology, Tehran, Iran.

Publications and international lectures

A- Books in Persian:
*2005: Published "The Most Frequent Words of Today's Persian, based on a one-million-word corpus" (in Persian: "Vāže-hā-ye Porkārbord-e Fārsi-e Emruz"), Tehran, Iran Language Institute (ILI), 322 pp;
*2004: Published "Arabic Poetry: Prosody and Rhyme" (in Persian: "Aruz-o Qāfiyeh-ye Arabi"), Tehran, Elmi va Farhangui, V + 144 pp;
*2004: Published "Madārej-ol-Balāgheh in Rhetoric" (in Persian: "Madārej-ol-Balāgheh dar Elm-e Badi"), by Rezā-Qoli Khān Hedāyat, edited and annotated by Hamid Hassani (co-editor: Behruz Safarzadeh), Tehran, Academy of Persian Language and Literature, XIX + 164 pp;
*2001: Published "A Glossary of Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran" (in Persian: "Farhang-e Mowzu'i-e Qānun-e Asāsi-e Jomhuri-e Eslāmi-e Irān"), Tehran, Rowzaneh 162 pp;
*1998: Published "Mer'āt-ol-Khiyāl Who's Who" (in Persian: "Tazkereh-ye Mer'āt-ol-Khiyāl"), by Shir-Ali Khān Ludi, edited and annotated by Hamid Hassani (co-editor: Behruz Safarzadeh), Tehran, Rowzaneh, XXI + 370 pp;
*1992: Published "Poetry of Nimā-Yooshij (a research on poetic metres and forms of Nimā-Yooshij) (in Persian: "Musiqi-e She'r-e Nimā (tahqiq-i dar owzān va qāleb-hā-ye she'ri-e Nimā-Yushij)", Tehran: Ketāb-e Zamān 272 pp.

B- Papers in Persian:
*1991 - present: Published 35 papers in Persian on Persian, Arabic, 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 Emruz”, Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences, 5th International Congress of Persian and Tajik Scholars, March 2006;
*1997: “Poetry of Nima-Yooshij, Free Verse or Blank Verse?” (English), Norway, University of Oslo (Blindern), September 1997;
*1997: “Persian Prosody and Necessity of Professional Studies” (in Persian: “'Aruz-e Fārsi va Zarurat-e Tahqiq-e Takhassosi dar An” (Persian), Norway, Oslo, Kloden, September 1997.

ome of future plans

"The Persian Word Bank" (بانک زبان فارسی): a one-billion-word corpus, under preparing.

"The" "Dari (East Persian)" "Corpus": a one-million-word corpus, under preparing.

"The" "Tajik" "Language Corpus": a one-million-word corpus, under preparing.

"The" "Sorani" "Kurdish Corpus": a one-million-word corpus, under preparing.

External links

* [http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/people/personal/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=20752 Hamid Hassani at The Linguist List]