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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : People

NAMEHasan El-Shamy

  • Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • M.A. at Indiana University, 1964, Folklore
  • Ph.D. at Indiana University, 1967, Folklore (Interdisciplinary training in Folklore, Psychology, and Anthropology)

Research Interests

  • The Arabian Nights
  • Folktale

Contact Information

elshamy@indiana.edu
506 N. Fess 101
(812) 855-4124

Courses Recently Taught

  • The Thousand and One Nights/The Arabian Nights: East and West
  • Folklore of the Arab Peoples
  • Folk Religions and Worldviews in the Middle East

Publication Highlights

  • A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights. 679 pp. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006).
  • "Critical Analysis" of Moroccan Folktales, Translated from Arabic by J. El Koudia and Roger Allen with Critical Analysis [and typology studies] by Hasan M. El-Shamy (Syracuse University Press, 2003).
  • Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt, Sir Gaston C. Maspero. Edited and with an Introduction by Hasan El-Shamy (Santa Barbara, Cal., etc.) (Oxford University Press).