CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Hassan Bahara

Dutch writer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ2682968 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hassan Bahara (born 1978 in Teroua n'Aït Izou, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch writer. He grew up in Amsterdam. He won the "El Hizjra Prize for Literature" in both 2000 and 2001. Een verhaal uit de stad Damsko is his debut novel. Bahara is editor for the satirical literary weekly Propria Cures. Bahara is an atheist and critical of Islam.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hassan Bahara” as dutch writer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hassan, Bahara and Dutch.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2000, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hassan, Bahara and Dutch providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hassan Bahara”, the useful work is to connect “dutch writer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2682968. VIAF identifies the subject as 265719829. The Library of Congress control number is nb2006023165. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2000 and 2001.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hassan Bahara”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hassan Bahara primary sources, Hassan Bahara archive and Hassan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Hassan Bahara”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Hassan Bahara” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.