Faculty
Shakir Mustafa


Faculty Member

Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature

mustafa@bu.edu

718 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm. 302 A
Boston, MA 02215
617-353-6231
Interests:
  • Arabic Language
  • Contemporary Arab Writers
  • Irish Literature
  • American-Jewish Fiction

Courses:

LY 111: Elementary Modern Arabic I
LY 112: Elementary Modern Arabic II
LY 211: Second-year Modern Arabic I
LY 212: Second-year Modern Arabic II
LY 282: Qur'anic Negotiations: Contemporary Muslim Writers and the Holy Book
LY 283: Arab Women Writers
LY 303: Third-year Modern Arabic I
LY 304: Third-year Modern Arabic II

Publications:

"Iraqi Fiction Today." Manuscript submitted to Syracuse University Press, August 2006.

"A Vision of Arab-American Underworld in Souls." Book review, Al-Jadid (Spring 2005): 37.

"Genre Negotiations: Liminal Boundaries in Muhammad Khudyyir's Basriyatha." Edebiyat 13, 1 (May 2002) 105-109.

"Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq." Book review. The Year Book of Comparative and World Literature 48 (2000): 331-35.

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