 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