Ahmed M. F. Mostafa

Associate professor of Japanese literature at Cairo University. Born 1956 in Cairo. Earned his degree in Japanese and Japanese literature from Cairo University in 1978. Completed graduate diplomas in Japanese at Osaka University of Foreign Studies in 1982 and Chūkyō University in 1987. Has been in his current position since 2003 and a member of the Translation Grant Advisory Board of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies since 2007. Also president of the Alumni Association for Cairo University’s Department of Japanese Language. Has translated a broad range of Japanese literature into Arabic, from tenth-century masterpiece Ochikubo monogatari to works of twentieth-century fiction liks Yasuoka Shōtarō’s1959 “Kaihen no kōkei” (trans. “A View by the Sea”) and Yoshimoto Banana’s 1989 Tsugumi (trans. Goodbye Tsugumi).

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Aug 15, 2014