Farouk Abdel Wahab

Farouk Abdel Wahab is the pen-name of Farouk A W Mustafa, Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Modern Arabic Language in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, both at the University of Chicago.

Farouk Mustafa was born in Tanta, Egypt, and grew up there and in Cairo. He has a BA and an MA (English Literature) from the University of Cairo, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota (1977). He specialises in Arabic literature – particularly Arabic theatre, in comparative literature, and in popular culture and modern intellectual history.

He has translated the following novels of Egyptian authors.

Chicago by Alaa el Aswany, New York/Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 2007/2008

The Lodging house by Khairy Shalaby, New York/Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 2006

Birds of Amber by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, Cairo and New York, American University in Cairo (AUC) Press, 2005

Zayni Barakat by Gamal el-Ghitani, Third edition, AUC Press, 2004

A Certain Woman by Hala el Badry, AUC Press, 2003; first paperback edition 2006

Love in Exile by Bahaa Taher. AUC Press, 2002, first paperback edition 2004

No One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid. Cairo: American University in Cairo (AUC) Press, 1999, first paperback edition 2006

The Other Place by Egyptian author Ibrahim Abdel Meguid. Cairo: American University in Cairo (AUC) Press. 1997. (Winner of the first Naguib Mahfouz Prize in Literature.) First paperback edition 2005