Abdul Sattar Jawad

Abdul Sattar Jawad known also as :'Al-Mamouri',(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, London's City University (UK).

Abdul Sattar Jawad was born in Baghdad. 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. He is also an expert on Iraqi media and academia. Jawad has written 14 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 Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and edited the Baghdad Mirror.

Post held in Life

• Chair, Dept of Mass Communications, University of Baghdad.
• Secretary General of the Iraqi Writers' Union.
• Chair, Dept of English, College of Arts, University of Bagdad.
• Dean of College of Arts, Mustansiriyya University, Baghdad.
• Visiting Professor, Yarmouk University, Applied Sciences University, Jerash 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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