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Shakir Mustafa
Shakir Mustafa is a professor of Arabic at Northeastern University. He grew up in Iraq and taught at Mosul University in northern Iraq for eleven years. He taught at Indiana University and Boston University from 1999 to 2008. His most recent book is Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology (Syracuse University Press, 2008; AUC 2009). Other book publications are in the areas of literary translation, Irish drama and Jewish American fiction. He gave dozens of lectures as well as radio and television interviews (NPR, NECN, FOX News, BBC, among others) on Arab and Muslim cultures and politics. He has been awarded CATS funding from CPS, Northeastern University in 2014 and a Boston University Humanities Foundation Fellowship for the spring semester of 2007. His book Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology has been recognized as ‘one of the most important books in 2008’ by the Bloomsbury Review.
Contact: World Languages Center, Northeastern University, 405 Meserve Hall, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.