Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer, linguist, and academic
Hamid Hassani or Hamid Hasani (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).
He lives in Tehran since 1987.
Hassani has earned a Ph.D. 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. Hassani also has published some works on Persian lexicography, corpus-making, and frequency-concordance dictionaries.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).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.