{{short description| Palestinian linguist and broadcaster}} {{use dmy dates |date=June 2024}} {{Infobox person |name = Hasan Karmi | native_name = حسن سعيد الكرمي | native_name_lang = ar | birth_date = 1905 | birth_place = Tulkarm, Ottoman Empire<ref name="Indy2007">{{cite news|last=Macintyre|first=Donald|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hasan-karmi-449311.html|title=Hasan Karmi|work=The Independent|date=18 May 2007|access-date=19 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713210717/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hasan-karmi-449311.html|archive-date=13 July 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|5|5|1905}} | death_place = Amman, Jordan |image = File:Hasan Karmi.jpg |caption = Hasan Karmi | relatives = Mahmoud Al-Karmi (brother)<br /> Ahmad Shakir al-Karmi :ar:أحمد شاكر الكرمي (brother)<br /> Abdul-Ghani Al-Karmi (brother)<br /> Abu Salma (brother) |children = Ghada Karmi, Siham al-Karmi }} '''Hasan Sa'id Karmi''' ({{langx|ar|حسن سعيد الكرمي}}; 1905 – May 5, 2007) was a Palestinian linguist and broadcaster for the BBC Arabic Service.<ref name="Llewellyn">{{cite news|last=Llewellyn|first=Tim|title=Hasan Karmi|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/may/07/israel.guardianobituaries|website=The Guardian|date=7 May 2007|access-date=19 May 2022}}</ref>
==Biography== Hasan Karmi was born in Tulkarm (then in the Ottoman Empire).<ref name="Indy2007" /> The son of a sharia court judge, Sheikh Sa'id al-Karmi, and the brother of the poet Abd al-Karim al-Karmi. Karmi studied in a local Qur'anic school in Tulkarm and later attended English College in Jerusalem. He joined the British mandate government's education department and won two scholarships, in 1939 and 1945, to study at the Institute of Education in London.{{fact|date=November 2023}}
==Practical life== Karmi joined the BBC Arabic Service and worked as a broadcaster for nearly 40 years.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ar:مذيعو راديو بي بي سي العربي عبر العقود |date=2018-01-23 |website=BBC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128203203/https://www.bbc.com/arabic/42733654 |archive-date=2023-01-28 |url-status=live |url=https://www.bbc.com/arabic/42733654 |language=ar |trans-title=BBC Arabic Radio Announcers Across the Decades}}</ref> He was the creator, writer, and presenter of a weekly literary program called ''Qawlun ala Qawl'' (Saying on a Saying) devoted to Arabic poetry and proverbs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.net/programs/privatevisit/2006/12/18/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9 |website=Al Jazeera |script-title=ar:حسن الكرمي.. سيرة ذاتية |language=ar |access-date=5 June 2024}}</ref> For years he also wrote a column in ''Huna London ''(London Calling), which the embassy in Saudi Arabia used to distribute on behalf of the BBC Arabic Service. In 1969 Karmi was awarded an MBE for services to the BBC.{{fact|date=November 2023}}
Karmi was married to a Syrian woman, Amina, had one son, Ziyad, and two daughters, Siham and Ghada Karmi. He returned to the Middle East, to Jordan, in 1989 and spent his remaining years working on eleven dictionaries, one Arabic-English, the rest English-Arabic.<ref name="Llewellyn" />
==Death== He died on 5 May 2007 in Amman, Jordan.
==Articles== * {{cite news |last=Craig |first=Sir James |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2078710,00.html |title=Letter: Hasan Karmi |work=The Guardian |date=2007-05-14 |accessdate=2007-05-18}} *Karmi, Ghada: ''In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story'' {{ISBN|1-85984-694-7}} Verso 2002 *Marwan Asmar; [http://www.hackwriters.com/KarmiMA.htm Remembering Hassan Al Karmi, the Intellectual I knew], Hackwriters.com
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