Hassanpour, Amir

LC control no.	n 92010816
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hassanpour, Amir *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Ḧesen Pûr, Emîr Pûr, Ḧesen Emîr Ḥasanʹpūr, Amīr حسن‌پور، امير Ḧesenpûr, Emîr
Located	Canada
Birth date	1943-08-10
Death date	2017-06-24
Place of birth	Mahābād (Iran)
Place of death	Toronto (Ont.)
Affiliation	Dānishgāh-i Tihrān University of Windsor Concordia University (Montréal, Québec) University of Toronto
Profession or occupation	College teachers
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated
Found in	His The standardization of the Kurdish language, 1918-1985, 1992: CIP t.p. (Amir Hassanpour) Gutubêjêkî degmenî Tofîq Wehbîy u xwêndineweyêkî r̄exnegirane, 2011: title page (Emîr Ḧesen Pûr) page 16 (born 1943 in Mehabad, Irani Kurdistan, he has been living in Canada and has been teaching at University of Windsor, University of Concordia and now at University of Toronto) Wikipedia, via www, 5 July 2015: (Amir Hassanpour;10 August 1943 - 24 June 2017; Persian: Amīr Ḥasanʹpūr امير حسن‌پور‎‎; Central Kurdish: Emîr Ḧesenpûr‎), was a prominent Iranian Kurdish scholar and researcher; born in Mahabad, in north-western Iran; received his 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 received 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. The title of his thesis is The language factor in national development: The standardization of the Kurdish language, 1918-1985. He lived in Canada from 1986, and taught at University of Windsor, Concordia University, and University of Toronto. He was Associate Professor at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. His areas of interest for the course were media, conflict and democracy and critical approaches to nationalism, ethnic conflict, genocide, and social movements. He died, aged 73, in Toronto) Amicus database, 13 September 2017 (access point: Hassanpour, Amir)
Associated language	kur per eng