Sharif S. Elmusa is a poet, scholar and translator. Apart from academic publications, he is co-editor with Greg Orfalea of as Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry, and author of Flawed Landscape. His poems and essays appeared in numerous anthologies and print and online magazines, including most recently, The Massachusetts Review, Voxpopulisphere.com, The Indian Quarterly, and Jadaliyya.com He taught at the American University in Cairo for many years, at Georgetown University in Qatar, and at Yale.