A Short Biography of
Ali Bakr Hassan
Associate Professor
Effat University – Jeddah –Saudi Arabia
ahassan@effatuniversity.edu.sa
ORCID: 0000-0002-2656-6657
My academic training has been multi-disciplinary in Early Islamic studies, international relations, and library and information science. I obtained two Master's Degrees and a Ph. D. in these fields from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. I have extensive teaching experience in the US (University of California-Riverside, Brown University and Ohio State university), and the Middle East (American University in Cairo, Zayed University-Dubai, and Effat University-Jeddah) in the fields of Islamic history, Muslim contributions to civilization, and Arabic as a foreign language. In addition, I have ten years of experience managing the Arabic and Islamic Studies collections in three major universities in the US (University of California-Berkeley, Brown University, and Ohio State University). I am fluent in both Arabic and English. I have a good working knowledge of Persian, French, and German. I authored three books on Islamic history, American history, and literature on Arab emigrants to the New World (North and South America), and edited manuscripts in Islamic history. I published several articles about Arabic and Islamic studies in Medieval Europe. My main research interests are in Early Islamic History, Arabic and Islamic Studies in Medieval and early modern Europe, and Library in Information Studies.