Nabil MatarNabil Matar is Presidential Professor and Professor of English, and Adjunct Professor of History and of Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota. He holds the Samuel Russeel Chair in the Humanities at the College of Liberal Arts. He is author editor and translator of numerous publications, the most recent being An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World (1779-1787) (Routledge, 2015), British Captives in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1563-1760 (Brill, 2014) and Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam (Columbia University Press, 2013). Read More Read Less