Professor Dr. Mohammad Moustafa Haddara (1930 – February 28, 1997) was a distinguished Arabic scholar.

Dr. Haddara was Professor of Arabic Literature

Arabic literature

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, at Alexandria University

Alexandria University

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, Egypt

Egypt

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, and a Professor at King Saud University

King Saud University

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, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

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After leaving his diplomatic position as the Cultural Attache

Cultural attaché

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 of the Arabic League, Haddara devoted his time to the academic field. Haddara held the positions of Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Tanta University

Tanta University

Tanta University is an Egyptian university in the city of Tanta, Al Gharbiyah governorate, Egypt. The university is under the direct scientific supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education....

, and Vice Dean for post-graduate studies, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University. Moreover, Haddara was a visiting professor at University of Shanghai, China, Bonn University, Germany, Umdorman University in Sudan, University of Tokyo, Japan, and many other regional and international universities.
Haddara held the Head of Department position in various departments including: Arabic, Theater, Phonetics, and Oriental Languages Departments at Alexandria University, Ain Shams university, and Tanta university. and other international universities.

Haddara authored 1 historical novel called El mansoura, named after the Egyptian city El-Mansoura, and a total of 16 books in the field of Arabic literature and criticism. Haddara edited numerous books, and translated 5 books to Arabic language including Islam by the Arabist

Arabist

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 scholar Alfred Guillaume

Alfred Guillaume

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, and the Japanese Hiroshima Diary by Michihiko Hachiya

Michihiko Hachiya

was a Japanese medical practitioner who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and kept a diary of his experience. He was Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and lived near the hospital, about a mile from the explosion's centre...

. Moreover, he has translated 3 international novels. He also wrote numerous literary and critical articles in academic journals, conferences, magazines, and newspapers in Egypt and the Arab world.
Professor Haddara has supervised 81 master thesis and 88 doctorate thesis in Egyptian national, regional, and international universities.