Mohammed Hassen

{{Short description|Ethiopian historian}} {{Use British English|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox academic | name = Mohammed Hassen Ali | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Garamuelta, Hararghe, Ethiopia | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | home_town = | spouse = | partner = | alma_mater = {{ubl | University of London}} Addis Ababa University | thesis_title = [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29226/1/10731321.pdf The Oromo of Ethiopia, 1500-1850] | thesis_year = 1983 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = {{hlist | African studies | history}} | sub_discipline = {{hlist | Ethiopian history | Ethiopian studies}} | workplaces = Georgia State University | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Mohammed Hassen Ali''' is an Ethiopian historian and a scholar of Ethiopian studies.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gibb |first1=Camilla |title=Negotiating Social and Spiritual Worlds: The Gender of Sanctity in a Muslim City in Africa |journal=Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion |date=2000 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=25–42 |publisher=Indiana University Press |jstor=25002391 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25002391}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Uma |first1=Seth |title=Reviewed Work: Unsettled: denial and belonging among white Kenyans McIntoshJanet |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=865 |jstor=26487857 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26487857}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Mohammed Hassen |publisher=Google Scholars |url=https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=jps_2FcAAAAJ&hl=en}}</ref>

== Early life and education == Mohammed Hassen was born in Hararghe, Ethiopia to Oromo farmers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leta |first1=Leenco |title=The Ethiopian State at the Crossroads Decolonization and Democratization Or Disintegration? |date=1999 |publisher=Red Sea Press |isbn=9781569021217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_Ii4ViIdaUC&dq=mohammed+hassen+hararghe&pg=PT2}}</ref> He spent his early years in the city of Harar. Mohammed received his BA at the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and his PhD in African history at the University of London in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite thesis|last1=Hassen |first1=Mohammed |title=Oromo of Ethiopia |website=SOAS University of London|url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29226/1/10731321.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hassen |first1=Mohammed |title=Focus on Oromia |publisher=bilisummaa.com |url=https://bilisummaa.com/focus-on-oromia/}}</ref>

== Career == He is currently assistant professor of the Middle East Studies Center at Georgia State University in the United States.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mohammed Haasen Ali |publisher=Georgia State |url=https://middleeaststudies.gsu.edu/profile/mohammed-hassen-ali/}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mazrui |first1=Ali |title=American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 31:3 |date=2 June 2014 |publisher=International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) |page=93 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHk2DwAAQBAJ&dq=Mohammed+hassen+ali+oromo+historian&pg=PA93}}</ref>

In 2023 he was one of the arbitrators between Oromo Liberation Army rebels and the Ethiopian government.<ref>{{cite press release|title=News: Gov't, OLA negotiators "created trust, positive atmosphere for second round talks": IGAD |date=4 May 2023 |publisher=Intergovernmental Authority on Development|via=Addis Standard |url=https://addisstandard.com/news-govt-ola-negotiators-created-trust-positive-atmosphere-for-second-round-talks-igad/}}</ref>

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