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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 1d

New book: "Exile and Return in African and Caribbean Literature" by Patoimbasba Nikiema @univmiami.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social - Includes chapters on #KhadiHane #MalikaMokeddem #DanyLaferrière #AlainMabanckou bit.ly/3IWT6uW #exile #Africanliterature #Caribbeanliterature #afrotopia

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 5d

Passed away today: Algerian writer & scholar Lamine Benallou. Born in Oran in 1958. Moved to Granada, Spain in 1994. Taught Spanish linguistics/literature in Spain & Algeria. Published on Andalusian heritage & interculturality. Finalist for the Orange Book Prize in Africa (2023) #Algerianliterature

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 7d

📢Research Fellowship in African Film & Visual History @brightonuni.bsky.social to join the international team responsible for the new research project "The Uganda Film Unit Archive: Digitisation, Research and Restitution", funded by the AHRC. Details: jobs.brighton.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 9d

📢Job Alert: The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at UChicago invites applications for a part-time Lecturer in Haitian Kreyòl during the 2025-26 academic year. Details > apply.interfolio.com/169461 #Kreyòl #HaitianKreyol #Haiti #languageteaching #HaitianCreole #Creole EOE/Vet/Disability

Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 12d

Call for applications: @stjohnsox.bsky.social is currently seeking to appoint a Career Development Research Fellowship in Modern Languages. Open to specialists in modern & contemporary German or French literature & film. Deadline: 24 October 2025. Details: sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac... #fellowship

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 15d

📢Job Announcement: The Department of French Studies in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences at
@lsu.bsky.social is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Black French Thought. Deadline: December 5, 2025. Details: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

Assistant Professor - Black French Thought

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 16d

Forthcoming in November: "Senghor: Writings on Politics", a collection of essays, speeches, and political writings by Léopold Sédar Senghor, edited and translated by Yohann C. Ripert @dukepress.bsky.social dukeupress.edu/senghor #Senghor #Négritude #Senegal #LéopoldSédarSenghor #Sénégal

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 27d

New collective volume: "Graphic Narratives of Resistance: Advocating for Representation and Social Justice in French-language Bandes Dessinées", ed. by Jennifer Boum Make & Charly Verstraet @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-graphic... #bandesdessinées #graphicnovels #comics

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Aug 22

New book: "Le Beatmaking à Dakar : Musique, savoirs, technologies" by Maël Péneau (preface by Emmanuelle Olivier) @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social
classiques-garnier.com/le-beatmakin... #musiqueafricaine #africanmusic #Senegal #Dakar #Sénégal #musicstudies #Senegalesemusic

Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Aug 14

"Sonallah Ibrahim's novelistic output, which spans over 45 years, represents a unique contribution to modern Egyptian literature, as well as to Arabic literature more generally" - Paul Starkey in "Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen" (2016)
@edinburghup.bsky.social bit.ly/4mJyNj0 #SonallahIbrahim

Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Aug 13

Arabic literature has lost one of its prominent figures, the Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim (1937-2025). His works, translated into French by Richard Jacquemond, Yves Gonzalez-Quijano & Jean-François Fourcade, have been published in France by Actes Sud since 1987 #SonallahIbrahim #Arabicliterature

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Aug 13

Aujourd'hui s'ouvre à Cerisy-la-Salle le Colloque consacré au grand écrivain, poète, anthropologue et traducteur algérien Habib Tengour auquel j'aurai le plaisir de participer. L'occasion de célébrer une œuvre exigeante et variée. Programme > cerisy-colloques.fr/habibtengour... #HabibTengour

Avec Habib Tengour, penser les espaces littéraires et anthropologiques [2025]

Colloque de Cerisy - 2025 Dirigé par Farida AÏT FERROUKH, Stéphane BAQUEY, Regina KEIL-SAGAWE et Hervé SANSON, du mercredi 13 août au mardi 19 août

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Aug 7

In "Francosphères" @livunipress.bsky.social, our PhD student Lou Gargouri (UChicago, RLL/TAPS) interviews Moroccan theater director Amin Boudrika about "Elle était une fois...LA JUPE", a play cowritten with and performed by Sanae Assif liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #Moroccantheater

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jun 24

📢Job Announcement: The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago invites applications for the position of Part-Time Lecturer in Kreyòl. EOE/Vet/Disability. Details > apply.interfolio.com/169461 #teaching #teachingjobs #Kreyòl #Creole

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Aug 4

📢Job Announcement: Transylvania University (Lexington, Kentucky) invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages (French). Tenure-track position, in-person classes, beginning August 27, 2026. Details: bit.ly/4m3nmmi #teachingjobs #frenchstudies #francophonestudies

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Aug 4

Vendredi dernier, j'étais l'invité du Journal de l'Afrique sur @france24.com avec la brillante journaliste @fatimatawane.bsky.social pour parler de mon roman "Évocation d'un mémorial à Venise" (Présence Africaine) et dire ce que peut la littérature. Un grand merci à elle & à son équipe f24.my/BLjN.y

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jul 31

📢Job Announcement: Trinity College Dublin
@tcddublin.bsky.social invites applications for the position of Teaching Fellow in Business French. Application deadline: 11 August. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... #teachingjobs #teachingfrench #businessfrench #teachingjob

Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jul 30

New volume: "Passages francophones du Maghreb et transfert culturel", edited by Mickaëlle Cedergren and Hassan Moustir (Stockholm University Press) - Contributions on #AbdelfattahKilito #AssiaDjebar #YasmineChami #NinaBouraoui stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1... #culturaltransfer #Maghreb

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jul 30

Passed away yesterday: French and Morocco-based sociologist and writer Jean Zaganiaris. Known for his work on gender and sexuality in Moroccan literature. Contributed to local newspapers, edited short story collections, and published several novels, including "Un cœur marocain" (2018).

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jul 24

Recently published in our Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures series 📚
Explore both titles in more detail below ⬇️🔗

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jul 28

Passed away today: Algerian poet, journalist & literary columnist Abdelmadjid Kaouah. Born in Aïn Taya near Algiers in 1950. Lived near Toulouse. Served as a correspondent for Algerian newspapers. Has published since the 1970s & edited several anthologies of Algerian poetry #poet #Algerianliterature

Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jul 23

New volume: "Social Anthropology in the Arab World: The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline" @berghahnbooks.bsky.social - Edited by Abdullah Alajmi, Daniele Cantini, Irene Maffi and Imed Melliti berghahnbooks.com/title/Alajmi... #anthropology #socialanthropology

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jul 21

Great to hear about "Workshop of silence", the English translation by Conor Bracken (Vanderbilt University Press) of Haitian poet Jean d'Amérique's collection "Atelier du silence" (Cheyne, 2020) which I reviewed 5 years ago vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650779... #poetry #poetryintranslation

Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jul 19

Passed away yesterday: Moroccan eminent scholar of Hispanic Studies, Mohammed Salhi. Taught at Ben Abdellah University (Fes) & Mohammed 5 University (Rabat). Translated Carlos Fuentes. Cotranslated an anthology of Colombian short stories. Edited several volumes in Iberian & Latin American studies.

Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · Jul 19

8 finalists for the 2025 Arab Literature Prize, to be announced next November. The list includes 5 works translated from Arabic and 3 originally written in French, with authors representing Palestine, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt @arablit.bsky.social #arabliteratureprize

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