Ashraf Hassan (°1974, Cairo) is Visiting Professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University’s Faculty of Arts and Philosophy.
He studied at Ain Shams University (Cairo) and the University of Naples “L’Orientale", where he also did his PhD in cotutelle with the University of Bayreuth. His main fields of research are Egyptian Arabic, Sociolinguistics, and Contact Linguistics. He held different teaching positions in teaching Classical Arabic, Modern Arabic and Egyptian Arabic in Egypt (Dar Comboni for Arabic Studies, part of PISAI “Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies), Germany (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle a.d. Saale), and University of Hamburg), Italy (University of Macerata and University of Bergamo), and Switzerland (University of Bern and University of Zurich).
He also worked as Scientific Assistant at the History Department of the University of Zurich, SNSF Project "Hermaphrodites, eunuchs and priests: gender ambiguities and masculinity in the Arab and Latin Middle Ages" and currently holds the position of Scientific Assistant and Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Bern, Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies.
