Hamid Hassani

Hamid Hassani
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Born	(1968-11-23) November 23, 1968 (age 55) Saqqez, Iran
Alma mater	University of Tehran University of Allameh Tabatabaei PhD, Persian language and literature
Occupation(s)	lexicographer, corpus-maker, editor, Persian, Kurdish, and Arabic prosody expert
Years active	1991 - 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

Hamid Hassani (Persian: حمید حسنی, Kurdish: Hemîd Hesenî; Persian pronunciation: [hæˈmiːd-e hæsæˈniː]; born 23 November 1968 in Saqqez) 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).

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)

• The Persian Word Bank (بانک زبان فارسی): A One-Hundred-Million-Word Corpus, with part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging), and A Frequency Dictionary of Persian, under preparation;
• The Dari (East Persian) Corpus: A One-Million-Word Corpus, with part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging), to be prepared;
• The Tajik Language Corpus: A One-Million-Word Corpus, with part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging), to be prepared;
• The Sorani Kurdish Corpus: A One-Million-Word Corpus, with part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging), to be prepared.

• Jām-e-Jam Online: Persian Today Corpus (in Persian)
• Ādine Book: Madārej-ol-Balāgheh in Rhetoric^{[permanent dead link]} (in Persian)
• Ādine Book: Arabic Poetry: Prosody and Rhyme^{[permanent dead link]} (in Persian)
• Ādine Book: Two books by Hamid Hassani Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Persian)
• Ensāni: Some papers by Hamid Hassani (in Persian)
• Rāsexoon website: Arabic Poetry: Prosody and Rhyme Archived 2014-12-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Persian)
• Rāsexoon website: A Glossary of Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran by Hamid Hassani Archived 2014-12-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Persian)
• Rāsexoon website: Poetry of Nimā-Yooshij (a book by Hamid Hassani) Archived 2014-12-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Persian)
• Noormags: Some papers by Hamid Hassani (1) (in Persian)
• Noormags: Some papers by Hamid Hassani (2)^{[permanent dead link]} (in Persian)
• Noormags: On French Poetry (a critical paper by Hamid Hassani) (in Persian)
• Behnam Design website: Persian Beginner's Dictionary, with Behruz Safarzadeh

• Hamid Hassani's profile at The Linguist List (International Linguistics Community Online) Archived 2014-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Hamid Hassani's profile at LinkedIn
• Hamid Hassani's profile at Academia
• Hamshahri Online, "28th Yearbook Award Festival, 2010" (in Persian)
• Website of The Academy of Persian Language and Literature: "28th Yearbook Award Festival, 2010" (in Persian)
• Borna News: "28th Yearbook Award Festival, 2010" (in Persian)
• Jām-e-Jam Online: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009" (in Persian)
• Fārs News: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009" Archived 2015-05-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Persian)
• News Iran: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009"^{[permanent dead link]} (in Persian)
• Hayāt: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009" Archived 2014-12-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Persian)
• The Organization of Persian Language and Literature Development: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009"^{[permanent dead link]} (in Persian)
• Āftāb: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009" (in Persian)
• Persian Beginner's Dictionary (Persian: فرهنگ زبان‌آموز فارسی), with Behruz Safarzadeh (in Persian)