 He studied art as a teenager at Cairo's Kerabia Middle School where he was taught by the sculptor Ghaleb Khater.,

In 1976, Hassan worked for some months in a library Madbuli in Cairo.The Ministry offered him a job and he moved to Baghdad in 1977.In 1979, he received a grant from the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo and moved to Italy.He enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Naples in 1980 to study set design having found that the painting course was full.