- Abdul Sattar Jawad
Abdul Sattar Jawad (born
April 10 ,1943 ) is anIraq i-born Visiting Fellow at the University of Mississippi Barksdale Honors College. Prior to this he was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and he was with theJohn Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies atDuke University . He received aPh.D in English Literature and Journalism, London's City University (UK).Abdul Sattar Jawad was born in
Baghdad . Apart from teachingArabic literature , he is an expert on the works ofT. S. Eliot and those ofWilliam Shakespeare . He is also an expert on Iraqi media andacademia . 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 a professor atMustansiriya University inBaghdad and edited the "Baghdad Mirror ."Post held in Life
*Chair, Dept of Mass Communications, University of Baghdad.
*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.External links
* [http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/030406/depqa.html Interview]
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