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Hasan El-Shamy is a Professor of Folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. A specialist in the folklore and folk religion of the Middle East, his work emphasizes psychological themes and draws upon the disciplines of psychology and cultural anthropology, in addition to literary and comparative folkloristics. Several of his books explicate the folk cultures of the Middle East while also contributing to the continued development of comparative techniques and tools in folklore studies.

He earned his B.A. degree with honors in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1959 and his Ph.D. in folklore at Indiana University in 1967. He is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society and he has lectured widely in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

Works
1980 Folktales of Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1995 Folk Traditions of the Arab World: A Guide to Motif Classification. 2 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1999 Tales Arab Women Tell: And the Behavioral Patterns they Portray. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2004 Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2006 A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.