Abdul Sattar Jawad (عبدالستار جواد; born April 10, 1943) is an Iraqi-born professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at
Duke University
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.
He was a
Barksdale Fellow at the
University of Mississippi
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, Honors College. Prior to this he was a visiting professor at the department of English and American language and literature,
Harvard University
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, and he was with the
at Duke University. He received a
Ph.D.
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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 ''The 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
The University of Baghdad (UOB) (, also known as Baghdad University) is a public university, public research university in Baghdad, Iraq. It is the largest university in Iraq and the tenth largest in the Arab world.
History
The College of Isl ...
, and edited the ''Baghdad Mirror''.
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Living people
Iraqi emigrants to the United States
1943 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Duke University faculty
Alumni of City, University of London
Academic staff of the University of Baghdad
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