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Professor Dato’ Dr. Hassan Basri bin Awang Mat Dahan
Professor/Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Student Affairs and Alumni)
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
Prof. Dato’ Dr. Hassan Basri Awang Mat Dahan has been appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Student Affairs and Alumni) of Islamic Science University of Malaysia (USIM) officially on 15 June 2015. Previously, he was a Professor of Arabic Language Education at The Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia. His areas of expertise are Arabic language, methodology of teaching Arabic and Language Testing. He was also a lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia from 1987-2011.
In 2004, he was appointed by ISESCO, an organisation under UNESCO, as an external expert on Arabic curriculum as a foreign language in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2007, he received a fellowship by the Fulbright Foundation, USA, under the Program called ‘Visiting Fulbright Scholars: An Access to Muslim Worlds’ to deliver lectures to community in Aurora, Denver, USA on Islam and Arabic language.
From 2003 to 2004, he involved in training teachers for teaching Arabic as a foreign/second language in Singapore which was organised by the Islamic Council of Singapore (MUIS) and Madrasah Al-Junaid, Singapore. He is also the Coordinator for the students’ exchange program for Arabic between his current and former universities and universities in the Middle East such as in Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Dr Hassan is a member of board of studies for Arabic programme at universities in the country such as University of Malaya (UM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), Universiti Zainal Abidin (UNISZA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Medinah International University (MEDIU), Institut Kemahiran Ikhtisas Pahang (IKIP), Kolej Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Selangor (KUIS) etc. |