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Tammam Hassan was an expert in the field of Arabic linguistics. ==Education and career== Tammam Hassan (Arabic: تمام حسان) was born in 1918 in the Upper Egyptian village of ElKarank and died on October 11, 2011 in Cairo. In 1929 Hassan completed memorizing the Qur’an which is considered a highly regarded educational sign. The following year Hassan moved to Cairo to attend Al-Azhar primary-school institute. He graduated from Al-Azhar high-school institute in 1939. Hassan attended Dar Al-Ulom College where he majored in Arabic Language and graduated in 1943 with an associate degree. He then continued to study education and psychology at Dar Al-Ulom College, graduating in 1945 (first honor award) with his teaching license. The following year he moved to London to learn English and finish his graduate studies. Hassan graduated from the University College London (UCL) in1949 with his master in phonetics. His graduate thesis topic was ''The Phonetics of "ElKarank" Dialect'' (Upper Egypt). Hassan graduated in 1952 from the University College of London with his Ph.D. in phonetics. His dissertation was titled, ''The Phonetics and Phonology of Aden Arabic'' (South Arabia). Following the completion of his studies, Hassan traveled to Aden for six months to record the local dialect. The phonological model which he followed was prosodic analysis associated with the British linguists J.R.Firth. Hassan began his career as a teacher of Arabic at a high school in Cairo in 1945. The following year he became a teaching assistant in Arabic, at Dar Al-Ulom College in Cairo. He maintained this position until traveling to London to continue his studies. In 1952 Hassan became an associate professor of Oriental and Semitic Linguistic Studies. He published his first major work in 1955, ''Language Research Methods'', an introductory work which established the use of descriptive method to analyze Fusha, classical Arabic. In 1956 Hassan became a volunteer officer in the Egyptian army during the British, French, and Israeli attack against Egypt. After the war in 1957, Hassan received a delegation for two months at the University of Michigan as part of the Fulbright Program. While in Michigan, he was trained to use modern devices for phonetics labs. He brought equipment with him to Egypt where he established the phonetics lab at the University of Cairo (Alarif, 2002). Hassan continued to enrich his career by becoming a cultural attaché at the Egyptian Embassy to Lagos, Nigeria for five years where he linked the educational relations between the private Islamic educational organizations and Egypt. As a result of his connections to the Embassy, Hassan brought many Egyptian teachers to teach in Nigeria. While still in Nigeria in 1964, Hassan was promoted to full professor. The following year he returned to Egypt where he was appointed as the Chair of Arabic Syntax and morphology department and also as the Vice Dean of ''Dar Al-Ulom'' College. In 1967 Hassan became a professor at the University of Khartoum for three years, where he established the department of Linguistic Studies. 1972 was an important and busy year for Hassan. He became the Dean of ''Dar Al-Ulom'' College where he was the general secretary of the Arabic language committee which is part of the highest council for the Egyptian universities. In the same year Hassan founded the Egyptian Linguistics Assembly. A new era began for Hassan in 1973 as professor at Mohammed V University in Morocco where he lived for six years. During the 80s Hassan finally settled down a bit and became a professor at the Arabic for Non Native Speakers Institute, Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia for 16 years. There he founded the Educational Linguistics Department that teaches students to work as Arabic teachers for non native speakers. In 1996 Hassan returned to Egypt to be an emeritus professor at ''Dar Al-Ulom'' College where he is still active in the linguistic field in many ways. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tammam Hassan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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