[3][5][6] Following high school graduation, she completed her compulsory military service and enrolled in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the late 1960s.

[3] After attaining her undergraduate degree, she participated in an exchange program at the University of Finland's Department of Finnish and Comparative Folklore, where she studied under Professors Matti Kuusi and Lauri Honko, solidifying her desire to become a folklorist.

[1] Her interdisciplinary approach to folklore, including the feminist aspects of her research, are frequently quoted by other authors.

[2] Hasan-Rokem founded the Proverb Indexing Project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Folklore Research Center.

[2] She is a regular contributor to the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales, published by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

[5] ARS POETICA[a] Men poets have muses Wrapping them in soft affection Calling them with gentle voices, Fondling And I have you, poetical pimp Sending me to the street corner Dressed in light, cheap clothes Tyrannizing me, selling me Upon my return, stealing my wages Hitting me so that I'll know Driving my heart mad Making a laughingstock of me Sometimes offering me the grace of a moment No man will get this from me.

She is a strong supporter of the two-state solution and the division of Jerusalem into the capital of both Israel and a Palestinian state.

[16] Hasan-Rokem is married to Freddie Rokem, the Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for 19th- and 20th-Century Art at Tel Aviv University and a published author in theatre studies.