Hasan M. El-Shamy is a professor of folklore (folkloristics) in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the African Studies Program at Indiana University. He received a B.A. with honors in Arabic and Islamic studies from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt in 1959. He then completed an intensive graduate program in psychology and education from Ain-Shams (Heliopolis) University in 1959–1960. Later he received an M.A. in folklore from Indiana University in 1964, as well as a Ph.D. in folklore with interdisciplinary training in folklore, psychology, and anthropology from Indiana University in 1967. El-Shamy is retired and professor emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington.
Representative works
• Hasan El-Shamy (1980). Folktales of Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. • Hasan El-Shamy (1995). Folk Traditions in the Arab World: A Guide to Motif Classification. 2 Vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. • Hasan El-Shamy (1999). Tales Arab Women Tell: And the Behavioral Patterns They Portray. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. • Hasan El-Shamy (2004). Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. • • Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy, eds. (2005). Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. • Hasan El-Shamy (2006). Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. • Hasan El-Shamy (2008). Religion Among the Folk in Egypt. Westport, CT: Praeger. == References ==