Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa (Arabic: عبد الوهاب، فاروق; c. 1943 – 3 April 2013), pen name Farouk Abdel Wahab, was an Egyptian academic and translator based in the USA.
[2] He received a BA degree in 1962 and an MA in English literature in 1969.
He pursued doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota, obtaining a PhD in comparative literature in 1977.
He was the first occupant of the university's Ibn Rushd Professorial Lectureship in Modern Arabic Language,[3] and was also the Associate Director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
He was also a noted translator of contemporary Arabic literature.