Amir Hassanpour
Amir Hassanpour, (1943- ), is a prominent Kurdish scholar and researcher. He was born in Mahabad, in north-western Iran. He received Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English language in 1964 from University of Tehran. He taught in the secondary schools of Mahabad in the period of 1965-66.
In 1968, he began studying linguistics at Tehran University, and recieved his M.A. in 1970. He finished his doctoral work in 1972, while teaching for a year at the University of Tehran. Then he went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied communications and received his Ph.D. in 1989 in the field of sociolinguistics and contemporary Middle Eastern history.
He has been living in Canada since 1986, and has been teaching at University of Windsor, Concordia University and University of Toronto. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.
Works
- Nationalism and Language in Kurdistan, 1918-1985. San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992.
References
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