Ibrahim Muhawi

Ibrahim Muhawi is Courtesy Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. He has held teaching positions in North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, where he taught English Literature, Literary Translation, and Arabic folklore. He has published a number of scholarly works and received several awards, including the 2004 Lannan Residency, the 2011 PEN Translation Prize, and a 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. Muhawi is a renowned scholar and translator of the works of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.