​Margaret Litvin is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University, U.S.A. She is the founding director of Middle East and North Africa Studies at Boston University. She is  a pioneering scholar in Global Shakespeare studies.  She is the author of Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost (Princeton, 2011), and co-edited and co-translated the companion anthology, Four Arab Hamlet Plays (CUNY, 2016). ​ She teaches courses including “War in Arabic Literature & Film,” “Global Shakespeares,” “1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination,” “Arabic Translation & Interpreting,” and the bilingual course “Intro to Arabic Literature.” Litvin’s research aims to help reinscribe modern Arabic cultural production into its proper global context.