 PERSONAL DETAILS

• Name: Qasim Hassan
• Address: Basra
• Telephone: 00964-7718964921
• Date of Birth: 15th May 1971
• Place of Birth: Baghdad/Iraq
• Citizenship: German
• Gender: Male

 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• 2005-2005: Tutor of German for American Native Speakers.
Employer: GLOBAL.LT in Michigan/USA
• 2004-2005: Interpreter for Chris-Aro Trading Company (Germany)
• 2001-2003: Translator for Lingualis Translation Centre (Germany)
• 2000-2001: Tutor of Arabic at Nilson Institute (Germany)

 EDUCATION

• 1977 – 1983 Primary School in Baghdad
• 1983 – 1986 Secondary School in Baghdad
• 1986 – 1989 High School in Baghdad
• 1989 – 1993 Bachelor in German Linguistics, Arabic and English at the
Univ. of Baghdad/College of Languages
• 1994 – 1996 High Diploma in Interpreting/Translation (Univ. of
Baghdad/College of Languages)
• 1998 – 2003 Masters in General Linguistics (Major), German Linguistics
and Information Sciences (Duesseldorf/Germany)
• 2004 – 2005 English courses (IELTS) in Thomas Damby College/UK
• 2004 – 2009 PhD in General Linguistics (Wuppertal/Germany)

 ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Arabic: native speaker
• German: fluent (spoken and written)
• English: upper intermediate
• Dutch: basic knowledge
• PC-SKILLS: WINDOWS, WINWORD, EXEL

 INTERESTS

• Theoretical and historical Linguistics
• Ancient Arabic dialects
• Bilingual Studies
• Semitic dialects, particularly eastern Aramaic dialects