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Khalid Lyamlahy

@khalidlym.bsky.social
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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)

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 14h
Delighted to receive a copy of Abdelwahab Meddeb's "Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech", translated by Claudia Esposito & Laura Reeck @syracuseup.bsky.social. Last year, I had the chance to read and write a blurb for this fascinating #travelogue press.syr.edu/supressbooks... #AbdelwahabMeddeb
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📢Job alert: @monashuniversity.bsky.social invites applications for the position of Lecturer in French and Intercultural Studies. Application deadline: November 2nd. Details > careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... #frenchstudies #interculturalstudies #teachingfrench
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📢Job alert: The College of Charleston seeks a dynamic scholar, teacher, and academic leader at the rank of associate or full professor to serve as Chair of the Department of French, Francophone, and Italian Studies. Deadline: November 2. Details: jobs.cofc.edu/postings/18463
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Next week, my brilliant translator @rosschwa.bsky.social will moderate this fascinating event with award-winning translators @rolandglasser.bsky.social & @anamzafar.bsky.social. Tickets > www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/trans... #RosSchwartz #cheltenhamliteraturefestival #RolandGlasser #AnamZafar
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New book on the Moroccan "Years of Lead", with a focus on women's experiences of political and social activism: "Gli anni di piombo in Marocco: Attivismo femminile, sinistra e memoria (1965-2005)" by Martina Biondi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), published by Viella www.viella.it/libro/979125...
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My novel "Venice Requiem" (translated by @rosschwa.bsky.social and published by @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social) is featured in my alma mater's magazine! Deeply grateful to @stannescollege.bsky.social for highlighting my work in "The Ship", the annual alumni magazine and college record. #VeniceRequiem
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📢Job alert: The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at UChicago invites applications for part-time Lecturers to teach in various courses of the French Language curriculum. Teaching will begin January or March 2027 apply.interfolio.com/194777 #teachingjob #teachingfrench EOE/Vet/Disability
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📢Job alert: The Department of French & Francophone Studies @georgetownuni.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure-line position at the level of Assistant Teaching Professor. Three-year renewable contract. Deadline: November 15. Details: apply.interfolio.com/194339 #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New book: "Dans l'atelier de Léopold Sédar Senghor" by Claire Riffard (Éditions Hermann): www.editions-hermann.fr/livre/dans-l... #Senghor #LéopoldSédarSenghor
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📢 Job alert: The Language & Culture Program at @sokauniversity.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of French Language & Culture beginning August 1, 2027. Review of applications begins on October 19. Details: www.soka.edu/jobs #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Deeply humbled and grateful to Moroccan writer, translator, and curator Omar Berrada for his words about my monograph "Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco", published last year by @livunipress.bsky.social. The paperback version is coming in 2027 #monograph
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The PhD program in French & Francophone Studies in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at UChicago now welcomes applications for Autumn 2027 admission! Applications are due December 1, 2026. Details: rll.uchicago.edu/graduate/gra... #graduateadmissions #phdprogram #francophonestudies
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Last July in Edinburgh, I stopped by the beautiful Blackwell's Bookshop to sign copies of my novel "Venice Requiem", trans. by @rosschwa.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social. Many thanks to the bookshop team for their warm welcome & for giving my book a place among their selection #VeniceRequiem
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 Job alert: @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the level of assistant professor in the Department of History. Deadline: September 27. Details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05494 #Africanhistory #history #Africa
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just published by Riveneuve Editions in Paris: "La Quête de la toison d'argent", the French translation of W. E. B. Dubois's novel "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" (1911). The book is translated by Florence Canicave www.riveneuve.com/catalogue/la... #WEBDuBois #translation #literatureintranslation
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
📢 Job alert: The Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures and Anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor @umich.edu invite applications for a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. Deadline: October 30. Details: apply.interfolio.com/192931
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The deadline for proposals for the 44th Annual 20th- and 21st-Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium extended to September 30, 2026. Keynote speakers: #FaïzaGuène, @mamefatouniang.bsky.social, #OliviaRosenthal. The call for papers is available here: voices.uchicago.edu/ffsc
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor, beginning August 10, 2027, in the areas of gender & sexuality studies. Details: apply.interfolio.com/190665
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Another major highlight of my visit to Edinburgh last July was my stop at Topping & Company, where I signed copies of my novel "Venice Requiem", tr. @rosschwartz.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social. Many thanks to the brilliant @zainrishi.bsky.social for the warmest welcome ever! #VeniceRequiem
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dans "En Attendant Nadeau" ma recension de "Ici commence la terre", quatrième roman de l'écrivain franco-palestino-libanais Jadd Hilal, paru chez #elyzad. Une vie palestinienne portée par le récit bouleversant d'une femme et d'une nation en exil www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/09/05/u... #JaddHilal
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of French at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose scholarship is anchored in French & Francophone global literature & culture from 1500-1700. Deadline: November 1st. Details: apply.interfolio.com/192507 #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📢 Reminder: 8 days left to submit proposals for the 44th Annual 20th- & 21st-Century French & Francophone Studies International #Colloquium, which Alison James and I are delighted to host at UChicago/InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile on April 1–3, 2027. Details > voices.uchicago.edu/ffsc
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of French Studies. Details > trinity.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Trinit... #teachingjobs #frenchstudies
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of French and Francophone Studies at @batescollege.bsky.social invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in French and Francophone Studies beginning July 1, 2027. Details: apply.interfolio.com/192246 #francophonestudies #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Furman University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Professor of African Francophone Studies to begin August 1, 2027. Details: bit.ly/46DdvgF #francophonestudies #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of Language & Culture Studies @trinitycollege.bsky.social invites applications for a TT Assistant Professor with a specialization in postcolonial Francophone Studies, beginning July 1, 2027. Details: trincoll.peopleadmin.com/postings/3766 #francophonestudies #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Forthcoming in December: "Haunting Energies in the Arabic Novel: Oil, Ecology and the Spectral" by Charis Olszok @edinburghup.bsky.social - Engages with key works by #TayebSalih, #AbdalrahmanMunif, #IbrahimalKuni, and #SalimBarakat edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hauntin... #Arabicnovel #ecology
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Great to see that some of Abdelrahman Munif's nonfiction writings are finally available in English! Translated by Mariam Younes, Edited by Maher Jarrar, Foreword by @sinanantoon.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social plutobooks.com/product/outs... #AbdelrahmanMunif #Munif #nonfiction
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Last month, I had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful Till's #Bookshop in #Edinburgh and signing some copies of my novel #VeniceRequiem @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social. Many thanks to Georgia & Kate who recently interviewed my translator @rosschwartz.bsky.social for @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New book: "Triangulating Édouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, and Albert Memmi" by Grant Farred, Sophia Jahadhmy, and Alex van Biema @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/triangula... #EdouardGlissant #JacquesDerrida #AlbertMemmi #Derrida #Memmi #Glissant
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Forthcoming on August 20: "À en perdre la raison: Folies et colonisation à Madagascar" by Raphaël Gallien @edladecouverte.bsky.social www.editionsladecouverte.fr/a_en_perdre_... #Madagascar #colonialism #colonialhistory #Frenchcolonialism
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Passed away yesterday: Moroccan #poet Mohamed Serghini. Born in Fes (1930). Studied in Fes, Baghdad, Rabat, Paris. First poetry collection in 1987. Contributed to several journals including "Aqlam". Published on Salah Stétié. Translated Arrabal. Awarded the Argana International Poetry Prize (2004).
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of French & Francophone Studies at @vassar.bsky.social invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning Fall 2027. Details > vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar... #francophonestudies #teachingjobs #Mediterraneanworld
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of French, Francophone and Italian Studies at @wellesley.edu invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in French & Francophone Studies beginning July 1, 2027. Details > wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui... #francophonestudies #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Requiem invokes the solemn sung Mass pleading that the dead beloved person may rest in peace, and this book's prose, fluently, elegantly and subtly translated by Ros Schwartz, has a matching dignity and solemn poetry" - My novel reviewed in @thetablet.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Forthcoming in November @degruyterbrill.bsky.social : "Les nouveautés littéraires du Maghreb au 21e siècle", ed. by Ramona Mielusel. Chapters on Algerian literature, Moroccan novelists Mohamed Nedali & Rania Berrada, Tunisian writer Ahmed Mahfoudh, and the Amazigh novel brill.com/display/titl...
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Passed away last Friday: Moroccan historian & Professor at Mohammed V University (Rabat), Lotfi Bouchentouf. He was widely recognized for his influential book "The Scholar and the Sultan: A Study of the Transfer of Power and the Foundations of Legitimacy - The First Saadian Period" (2004) #historian
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Passed away yesterday: Moroccan poet, activist, and former political prisoner Tahar Mahfoudi. In 2004, he published "أفول الليل"/"The Fading of the Night", a memoir about his experience and incarceration during the Years of Lead.
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📢 Job alert: The Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies (FIGS) of @upenn.edu invites applications for part-time Lecturers to teach Elementary and Intermediate French courses. Details: apply.interfolio.com/190408 #languageteaching #teachingfrench #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📢 Job alert: The French section of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Cultures at the University of Amsterdam seeks to appoint a Lecturer in French Language and Culture (4-year fixed term). Deadline: 3 August. Details > werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... #Frenchstudies #teachingjobs
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Forthcoming in August: "Ce que nous devons à Haïti : Réflexions philosophiques sur la justice réparatrice" by Magali Bessone @edladecouverte.bsky.social editionsladecouverte.fr/ce_que_nous_... #Haïti #HaitianStudies
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Forthcoming in February 2027: "Magical Realism in Palestinian Literature and Folktale: Reading the Distorted Spaces of the Nakba" by Sanabel Abdel Rahman @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/magical-r... #magicalrealism #palestinianliterature
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Remembering the pioneering Moroccan writer Driss Chraïbi, who would have turned 100 today. One of the most inspiring writers whose work continues to resonate with us. A few covers from different language editions of his seminal novel, "Le Passé simple" (1954) #DrissChraïbi @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Appel à candidatures : Contrat doctoral dans le programme des études théâtrales en arabe @inalco.fr. Délai des candidatures : 30 juillet 2026. Détails > inalco.fr/institut/con... #théâtre #doctorat #contratdoctoral #étudesthéâtrales #theatrestudies #arabtheater #arabictheater #arabtheatre #inalco
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The recent issue of the Journal of North African Studies includes both my review of Hélé Béji's "We, the Decolonized" @politybooks.bsky.social & Ninon Vessier's review of my monograph "Nostalgic Rebels" @livunipress.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/toc/fnas20/3... #bookreviews #NorthAfricanStudies
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Passed away last Tuesday: Moroccan writer, journalist, and translator Abdeslam Touil. Born in 1963 near Asilah. Studied philosophy in Rabat. Worked as a teacher. Joined the Moroccan Writers Union in 1992. Contributed to local periodicals and published several cross-genre works.
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
On ambiguity in reading, awareness of one's own biases, and the virtues of humility and flexibility in the practice of #translation - Fascinating conversation between @annmorgan.bsky.social & the codirectors of @oxfordtranslates.bsky.social @rosschwa.bsky.social & @hollylangstaff.bsky.social
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My brilliant translator @rosschwa.bsky.social introducing @annmorgan.bsky.social, the keynote speaker at this year's @oxfordtranslates.bsky.social, codirected by Ros and @hollylangstaff.bsky.social #translation #Oxfordtranslates #translationstudies #translator #translators
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New book: "La Langue arabe en Europe: histoire de politiques linguistiques" by Tarek Abouelgamal (preface by Frédéric Lagrange) @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social - A study of Arabic language textbooks and the teaching of #Arabic in Europe (16th to 19th century) classiques-garnier.com/la-langue-ar...
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Five months since the publication of the English translation of my second novel @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social. Deeply grateful to my translator @rosschwa.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the readers & reviewers. The photo is from the London book launch held on Feb. 5th at Veranda Books #VeniceRequiem
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