Khalid Lyamlahy
@khalidlym.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in French & Francophone Studies at UChicago | Scholar | Writer | Literary Critic | Author: "Nostalgic Rebels" (2025); "Évocation d'un mémorial à Venise" (2023); "Un roman étranger" (2017); | Coeditor : "Abdelkébir Khatibi" (2020)
Out now: the Spanish translation by Antonio Álvarez de la Rosa of Jocelyne Laâbi's #autobiography "La Liqueur d'aloès" (2005), also available in English & Arabic. It will be presented next week @libreriabalqis.bsky.social in Madrid orienteymediterraneo.com/producto/10891 @orienteymediter.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Out now: the Spanish translation by Antonio Álvarez de la Rosa of Jocelyne Laâbi's #autobiography "La Liqueur d'aloès" (2005), also available in English & Arabic. It will be presented next week @libreriabalqis.bsky.social in Madrid orienteymediterraneo.com/producto/10891 @orienteymediter.bsky.social
New book: "Des bulles de BD dans l'Océan Indien. De l'histoire à la mémoire" by Christophe Cassiau-Haurie, Pierre-Eric Fageol and Frédéric Garan (Editions Karthala) karthala.com/accueil/3666... #bandedessinée #océanindien #comics #graphicnovels #comicbooks #bandesdessinées #indianocean
January 23, 2026 at 7:25 PM
New book: "Des bulles de BD dans l'Océan Indien. De l'histoire à la mémoire" by Christophe Cassiau-Haurie, Pierre-Eric Fageol and Frédéric Garan (Editions Karthala) karthala.com/accueil/3666... #bandedessinée #océanindien #comics #graphicnovels #comicbooks #bandesdessinées #indianocean
New book: "Le cas Bugeaud : Les violences de la conquête coloniale en Algérie" by Colette Zytnicki (Editions Tallandier) tallandier.com/livre/le-cas... #histoirecoloniale #colonialhistory #colonialAlgeria #colonialviolence #violencescoloniales #Bugeaud #colonialism
January 22, 2026 at 4:47 PM
New book: "Le cas Bugeaud : Les violences de la conquête coloniale en Algérie" by Colette Zytnicki (Editions Tallandier) tallandier.com/livre/le-cas... #histoirecoloniale #colonialhistory #colonialAlgeria #colonialviolence #violencescoloniales #Bugeaud #colonialism
"After beginning his account in #Timbuktu, Jeppie traces the literary connections among places as distant as Marrakesh in the north and Sokoto in the south" - Shamil Jeppie's "Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History" now out @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
January 21, 2026 at 11:42 PM
"After beginning his account in #Timbuktu, Jeppie traces the literary connections among places as distant as Marrakesh in the north and Sokoto in the south" - Shamil Jeppie's "Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History" now out @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Arabic #translation of my novel "Évocation d'un mémorial à Venise" by Bassent Fouad is now out with @sefsafapublishing.bsky.social. Huge thanks to the translator for her remarkable work & to the publisher for welcoming the book. Many thanks to the OIF & to Raphaël Thierry for their support.
January 16, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The Arabic #translation of my novel "Évocation d'un mémorial à Venise" by Bassent Fouad is now out with @sefsafapublishing.bsky.social. Huge thanks to the translator for her remarkable work & to the publisher for welcoming the book. Many thanks to the OIF & to Raphaël Thierry for their support.
The Arabic #translation by Sahar Ali of Peter Limbrick's book @ucpress.bsky.social about the work of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi now out with Amaa Baad. Five years ago, I reviewed the book for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/khalid_lyaml... #Moroccancinema #MoumenSmihi
January 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
The Arabic #translation by Sahar Ali of Peter Limbrick's book @ucpress.bsky.social about the work of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi now out with Amaa Baad. Five years ago, I reviewed the book for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/khalid_lyaml... #Moroccancinema #MoumenSmihi
📢Job Alert: The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at @mountallison.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor specializing in 20th/ 21st century French literature. Start date: July 1, 2026 bit.ly/4byHtWR
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
📢Job Alert: The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at @mountallison.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor specializing in 20th/ 21st century French literature. Start date: July 1, 2026 bit.ly/4byHtWR
📢Job Alert: The Department of French & Francophone Studies (FFS) at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social invites applications for a position of Visiting Assistant Professor in French & Francophone Studies to begin July 1. A 2-year, non-TT position, 5-course teaching load/year bit.ly/4qdY9HM #teachingjobs
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
📢Job Alert: The Department of French & Francophone Studies (FFS) at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social invites applications for a position of Visiting Assistant Professor in French & Francophone Studies to begin July 1. A 2-year, non-TT position, 5-course teaching load/year bit.ly/4qdY9HM #teachingjobs
"A work of fiction written as a form of witness — refusing easy moral display, and instead pressing on the harder question: what does it mean to look, to narrate, to arrive late?". Grateful to @litromagazine.bsky.social for this review! litromagazine.com/world-series...
@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
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January 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"A work of fiction written as a form of witness — refusing easy moral display, and instead pressing on the harder question: what does it mean to look, to narrate, to arrive late?". Grateful to @litromagazine.bsky.social for this review! litromagazine.com/world-series...
@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
"A vital, compassionate work that challenges, honours and, ultimately, elevates the human spirit" - My novel, "Venice Requiem", tr. Ros Schwartz, was featured in the Aug. 2025 issue of @thebookseller.com! Grateful to N. Onwuemezi! hoperoadpublishing.com/books/venice...
@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
"A vital, compassionate work that challenges, honours and, ultimately, elevates the human spirit" - My novel, "Venice Requiem", tr. Ros Schwartz, was featured in the Aug. 2025 issue of @thebookseller.com! Grateful to N. Onwuemezi! hoperoadpublishing.com/books/venice...
@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
Passed away yesterday: Moroccan journalist, translator, and poet Saïd Ahid. Worked for the Moroccan dailies "Al-Ittihad Al-Ichtiraki" and "Libération". Active member of the Moroccan Writers' Union. Translated several books into Arabic, including Leïla Bahsaïn's first novel "Le Ciel sous nos pas".
January 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Passed away yesterday: Moroccan journalist, translator, and poet Saïd Ahid. Worked for the Moroccan dailies "Al-Ittihad Al-Ichtiraki" and "Libération". Active member of the Moroccan Writers' Union. Translated several books into Arabic, including Leïla Bahsaïn's first novel "Le Ciel sous nos pas".
New book: "The Colonization of Names: Symbolic Violence and France’s Occupation of Algeria" by Benjamin Claude Brower @utaustin.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-col... #colonization #personalnames #Algeria #Frenchcolonization #names #symbolicviolence
January 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
New book: "The Colonization of Names: Symbolic Violence and France’s Occupation of Algeria" by Benjamin Claude Brower @utaustin.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-col... #colonization #personalnames #Algeria #Frenchcolonization #names #symbolicviolence
Prof. Stuart Schaar passed away on January 5 in Marrakech. A distinguished historian of the Middle East & North Africa. Professor Emeritus at @brooklyncollege.bsky.social. He published an intellectual biography of Eqbal Ahmad and coedited three volumes on the Middle East and Islamic world.
January 9, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Prof. Stuart Schaar passed away on January 5 in Marrakech. A distinguished historian of the Middle East & North Africa. Professor Emeritus at @brooklyncollege.bsky.social. He published an intellectual biography of Eqbal Ahmad and coedited three volumes on the Middle East and Islamic world.
The new issue of the French magazine "Esprit" includes a special section on Frantz Fanon. Contributions by @adamshatz.bsky.social #NormanAjari #MathieuRenault #RomualdFonkoua & others esprit.presse.fr/tous-les-num... #FrantzFanon #Fanon #RevueEsprit
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The new issue of the French magazine "Esprit" includes a special section on Frantz Fanon. Contributions by @adamshatz.bsky.social #NormanAjari #MathieuRenault #RomualdFonkoua & others esprit.presse.fr/tous-les-num... #FrantzFanon #Fanon #RevueEsprit
Forthcoming in April: "The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics", edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam @dukepress.bsky.social. Includes Senghor’s critical & philosophical writings spanning from 1937 to 1985 www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia... #Senghor
January 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Forthcoming in April: "The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics", edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam @dukepress.bsky.social. Includes Senghor’s critical & philosophical writings spanning from 1937 to 1985 www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia... #Senghor
Forthcoming in February: "British Travel Writers in Morocco, 1856–1937: Discursive Encounters" by Lahoucine Aammari (Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University, Fes) @livunipress.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #travelwriting #travelwriters
January 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Forthcoming in February: "British Travel Writers in Morocco, 1856–1937: Discursive Encounters" by Lahoucine Aammari (Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University, Fes) @livunipress.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #travelwriting #travelwriters
Call for applications: The Tunisian Faculty Visiting Program for 2026-2027 at the Middle East Centre @ox.ac.uk. Open to research-active employees of Tunisian universities or research centers. Successful candidates will be elected Academic Visitors of St Antony's College. Deadline: February 16.
January 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Call for applications: The Tunisian Faculty Visiting Program for 2026-2027 at the Middle East Centre @ox.ac.uk. Open to research-active employees of Tunisian universities or research centers. Successful candidates will be elected Academic Visitors of St Antony's College. Deadline: February 16.
The new issue of "Interculturel Francophonies", edited by Abdelouahed Hajji, is dedicated to Moroccan novelist, essayist, and literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito sites.google.com/view/allianc... #AbdelfattahKilito #Kilito
January 4, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The new issue of "Interculturel Francophonies", edited by Abdelouahed Hajji, is dedicated to Moroccan novelist, essayist, and literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito sites.google.com/view/allianc... #AbdelfattahKilito #Kilito
Just published: A special issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication on Moroccan Cultural Studies, edited by Tarik Sabry, Jamal Bahmad and Souad Eddouada @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... #MoroccanCulturalStudies #CulturalStudies
January 2, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Just published: A special issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication on Moroccan Cultural Studies, edited by Tarik Sabry, Jamal Bahmad and Souad Eddouada @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... #MoroccanCulturalStudies #CulturalStudies
In Memoriam: several figures from cultural, artistic, and academic circles, in the Maghreb and beyond, who passed away in 2025 #InMemoriam
January 2, 2026 at 5:28 PM
In Memoriam: several figures from cultural, artistic, and academic circles, in the Maghreb and beyond, who passed away in 2025 #InMemoriam
Prominent Algerian historian Mohammed Harbi passed away today. His work on the Algerian War of Independence & the FLN have inspired generations of scholars. "I went from the corridors of power to prison cells and the harsh cold of exile", he writes in his memoirs #MohammedHarbi #historian #Algeria
January 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Prominent Algerian historian Mohammed Harbi passed away today. His work on the Algerian War of Independence & the FLN have inspired generations of scholars. "I went from the corridors of power to prison cells and the harsh cold of exile", he writes in his memoirs #MohammedHarbi #historian #Algeria
📢Job Alert: The Department of French & Francophone Studies at Dickinson College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor. Five-course teaching load (mix of language & content courses) dickinson.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobs/d... #FrenchStudies #FrancophoneStudies #teachingjobs
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
📢Job Alert: The Department of French & Francophone Studies at Dickinson College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor. Five-course teaching load (mix of language & content courses) dickinson.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobs/d... #FrenchStudies #FrancophoneStudies #teachingjobs
Moroccan #poet Abdelmajid Benjelloun passed away yesterday. Born in Fes in 1944. Founding member of Morocco's House of Poetry. Taught at the Law Faculty of Rabat. Former President of the Moroccan Center of @peninternational.bsky.social. Published historical essays & collections of poems & aphorisms.
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Moroccan #poet Abdelmajid Benjelloun passed away yesterday. Born in Fes in 1944. Founding member of Morocco's House of Poetry. Taught at the Law Faculty of Rabat. Former President of the Moroccan Center of @peninternational.bsky.social. Published historical essays & collections of poems & aphorisms.
Algerian writer Mohammed Dib's seminal novel "L'Incendie" (1954) finally available in English. Translated by Chaker Mohamed Benali and Nicolas P. Taylor. Published by Editions Sédia in Algiers sedia.dz/librairie/la... #MohammedDib #Algerianliterature #literatureintranslation #translation
December 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Algerian writer Mohammed Dib's seminal novel "L'Incendie" (1954) finally available in English. Translated by Chaker Mohamed Benali and Nicolas P. Taylor. Published by Editions Sédia in Algiers sedia.dz/librairie/la... #MohammedDib #Algerianliterature #literatureintranslation #translation
Les dix romans finalistes de l'édition 2026 du Prix des 5 Continents de la Francophonie - Félicitations à @azellhajar.bsky.social @meryemnejwabelkaid.bsky.social et les autres finalistes ! - Détails : www.francophonie.org/prix-des-cin... #Prix5Continents #PrixCinqContinents #francophoneliteratures
December 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Les dix romans finalistes de l'édition 2026 du Prix des 5 Continents de la Francophonie - Félicitations à @azellhajar.bsky.social @meryemnejwabelkaid.bsky.social et les autres finalistes ! - Détails : www.francophonie.org/prix-des-cin... #Prix5Continents #PrixCinqContinents #francophoneliteratures