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Mustafa Zewar, from Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in comparative literature. His research interests include poetics across French, Latin, Arabic, and English, literary translation, and modern approaches to classical Arabic poetry. His current focus in translation is the Neoclassical Arabic poets from al-Barudi to al-Jawahiri. His latest publication, with Routledge, studied Mohamed Choukri through Franz Kafka.