{{Short description|Egyptian academic and translator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} '''Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa''' (Arabic: عبد الوهاب، فاروق; {{circa|1943}} – 3 April 2013), pen name '''Farouk Abdel Wahab''', was an Egyptian academic and translator based in the USA.<ref>[http://nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/mustafa Profile on the University of Chicago's website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407183318/http://nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/mustafa |date=7 April 2011 }}</ref> He was born in Tanta and studied at the University of Cairo.<ref>[http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/505/farouk_mustafa/ Profile on Banipal magazine's website]</ref> He received a BA degree in 1962 and an MA in English literature in 1969.
== Early life and education== He pursued doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota, obtaining a PhD in comparative literature in 1977. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975 until his death.
He was the first occupant of the university's Ibn Rushd Professorial Lectureship in Modern Arabic Language,<ref>[http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020509/ibnrushd.shtml "Lectureship strengthens commitment to Arabic language", University of Chicago Chronicle, 9 May 2002]</ref> and was also the associate director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
== Translations == He was also a noted translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Among his translations are the following:
* ''A Certain Woman'' by Hala el Badry * ''The Other Place'' by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid * ''No One Sleeps in Alexandria'' by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid * ''Birds of Amber'' by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid * ''Chicago'' by Alaa el Aswany * ''Love in Exile'' by Bahaa Tahir * ''The Lodging House'' by Khairy Shalaby * ''Zayni Barakat'' by Gamal al-Ghitani * ''The Zafarani Files'' by Gamal al-Ghitani * ''The Book of Epiphanies'' by Gamal al-Ghitani * ''Al-A'mal al-Kamila'' (''Complete Works'') of Mikhail Roman
He also translated works by Shakespeare and Pirandello into Arabic.
== Awards and recognition == * Mustafa won the 2007 Banipal Prize for his translation of Khairy Shalaby's ''The Lodging House''.
== Association == * Mustafa was a member of the Middle East Studies Association and the Arab Cultural Council of America.
== Tribute ==
Mustafa died on 3 April 2013.<ref>[http://tirnscholars.org/2013/04/05/in-memoriam-farouk-abdel-wahab-mustafa-prolific-translator-of-arabic-fiction-and-teacher/ "In Memoriam: Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa, Prolific Translator of Arabic Fiction and Teacher".] [http://tirnscholars.org/ Transcultural Islam Research Network.] 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2013-04-10.</ref>
==See also== * List of Arabic-English translators
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