Margaret Litvin is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature and founding director of Middle East and North Africa Studies at Boston University. 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). Her current research aims to reconstruct the literary legacies of Arab writers’ intellectual and personal ties with Russia and the Soviet Union.