Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa (also known as Farouk Abdel Wahab) is an Egyptian academic and translator based in the USA.[1] He was born in Tanta and studied at the University of Cairo.[2] He received a BA degree in 1962 and an MA in English literature in 1969. He pursued doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota, obtaining a PhD in comparative literature in 1977. He has been teaching at the University of Chicago since 1975. He is the first occupant of the university's Ibn Rushd Professorial Lectureship in Modern Arabic Language,[3] and is also the Associate Director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Mustafa is also a noted translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Among his translations are the following:
Mustafa won the 2007 Banipal Prize for his translation of Khairy Shalaby's The Lodging House. He has also translated works by Shakespeare and Pirandello into Arabic. He is a member of the Middle East Studies Association and the Arab Cultural Council of America.