William Granara
William Granara is an American author, translator and scholar  of Arabic language and literature. He studied at Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining his PhD from the latter in Arabic and Islamic studies. He has worked for the American University in Cairo and for the US State Department in Tunis. He is currently director of the Arabic language program at Harvard University. Granara is an expert on the history of Muslim Sicily, and on the Sicilian Arab poet Ibn Hamdis.