Hassan Hanafi (1935 - ) is an Egyptian thinker, residing in Cairo, and working as a university professor. One of the theoreticians of the Islamic Left Movement, the Occidental Science Movement, and one of the contemporary Arab thinkers of Arab intellectual projects. He taught in a number of Arab universities and headed the Department of Philosophy at Cairo University. He has a number of books on the thought of Arab-Islamic civilization. He received a PhD in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University with two doctoral theses, which he translated into Arabic and published in 2006 under the title: “The Interpretation of Phenomenology” and “The Phenomenology of Interpretation”, and spent ten years preparing them at the Sorbonne. He worked as a scientific advisor at the United Nations University in Tokyo during the period (1985-1987). He is also Vice-President of the Arab Philosophical Society, and Secretary-General of the Egyptian Philosophical Society.