Abdul Sattar Jawad (عبدالستار جواد; born April 10, 1943) is an Iraqi-born professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at Duke University.
Prior to this he was a visiting professor at the department of English and American language and literature, Harvard University, and he was with the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University.
He received a Ph.D. in English literature and journalism, from London's City University, (UK).
Apart from teaching Arabic and English literature, he is an expert on the works of T. S. Eliot and those of William Shakespeare.
Jawad has written 15 books on literature and media, and has edited some literary magazines and newspapers in English and Arabic.