Ali Abul Hassan is an Author, Poet, and Educationist. He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Arts, the University of Lahore, Lahore. Hassan is a PhD scholar at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, International Islamic University, Islamabad. He holds an M.Phil. and Bachelor's degree in Media and Communication studies from the Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. He has been teaching at university level since 2015. His major areas of interest are Media effects, gender and media, media psychology, and literature. He has 21 published research papers in HEC-recognized, peer-reviewed, international, and national Journals to his credit. Hassan has been working as a country expert for V-Dem since 2022 for their yearly assessment project on ‘variety of democracies’. With all these academic accolades, he had also been engaged in theatre activities and radio broadcasting during his university days.