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Abdul Sattar Jawad
Iraqi academic

Abdul Sattar Jawad

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Iraqi academic
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Abdul Sattar Jawad عبدالستار جواد(born April 10, 1943) is an Iraqi born Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He was a Barksdale Fellow at the [University of Mississippi,Honors College. Prior to this he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of English and American Language and Literature, Harvard University and he was with the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University. He received a Ph.D in English Literature and Journalism, from London's City University,(UK). Apart from teaching Arabic and English Literature, he is an expert on the works of T. S. Eliot and those of William Shakespeare. He had translated Eliot's "Waste Land" into Arabic and republished it in his book: T.S Eliot in Baghdad, A Study in Eliot's Influence on the Free Verse Movement in Iraq and the Arab World, 2014. He is also an expert on Iraqi media and academia. Jawad has written 15 books on literature and media, and has edited some literary magazines and newspapers in English and Arabic. Before coming to Duke, he was dean of College of Arts, University of Baghdad and edited the Baghdad Mirror.

Post held

  • Visiting Professor, London's City University
  • Chair, Dept of Mass Communications, University of Baghdad.
  • Secretary General of the Iraqi Writers' Union.
  • Chair, Dept of English, College of Arts, University of Baghdad.
  • Dean of College of Arts, University of Baghdad.
  • Visiting Professor, Yarmouk University, Applied Science Private University, Jerash Private University, Jordan.
  • Visiting Professor, Duke University, John Hope Franklin Center for International Studies.
  • Visiting Professor, Department of English, Harvard University.
  • Visiting Fellow, Honors College, University of Mississippi.
  • Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University.

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