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Zeki Majeed Hassan
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Zeki Majeed Hassan (born 16 October 1942) is a Phonetician, author, researcher, translator and editor. Last position, professor of phonetics, university of Gothenburg. He worked at a number of Iraqi, Arab and European universities. He has also been a visiting professor to a number of Canadian, American and French universities. He got his Ph.D. (1981) and post doctorate (1984) from university of Leeds UK (Celia Scully supervisor, John Laver university of Edenborough and Tony Bladen university of Oxford external examiners). He started his career in Iraq where he held several academic positions and responsibilities as well as chairing many academic committees at the University of Baghdad, Ministry of education and Ministry of higher education and got State awards for his distinguished academic contribution to these institutions. However, he is mostly known by western and Arab linguists and phoneticians for his research work and writings on instrumental Arabic phonetics. His specialized field includes Arabic emphatics, glottal, epiglottal and pharyngeal consonants, coarticulation, Arabic vowel and consonant quantity and quantity complementarity. Some of his collaborators: John Esling, university of Victoria Canada, Jerald Edmondson university of Texas at Arlington USA, Barry Heselwood university of Leeds UK, Eleanor Payne university of Oxford UK, Rachael-Anne Knight and Mark J Jones City London university….!

Biography
Zeki Majeed Hassan has the following academic qualificatio, a Post Doctorate, Dept of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, UK,1984, and Ph.D., Dept of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, U.K, 1981. Zeki also has a Postgraduate Diploma leading to M. Phil., Dept of Linguistics & Phonetics, [[Postgraduate Diploma leading to M. Phil., Dept of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, UK, 1978.University of Leeds], UK, 1978, and a BA in English, Dept. of Foreign Languages, College of Education, University of Baghdad, 1965.