📢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

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

📢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...

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

📢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

📢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

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

📢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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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.

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

New book: "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" @rutgersupress.bsky.social by our colleague Jennifer Boum Make (Georgetown) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/decolonial-c... #caribbeanstudies #environment #ecology #caribbean - Congratulations, Jennifer!

After "Photo-texts: Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image" (@livunipress.bsky.social, 2010), here's Andy Stafford's new book on photo-texts, published by Legenda @themhra.bsky.social www.mhra.org.uk/publications... - Félicitations, Andy! #phototexts #photography #frenchstudies

📢Job Announcement: The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at @baylor.bsky.social invites applications for the position of Lecturer in French. Deadline: 15 October. Details > apply.interfolio.com/169000 #teachingjobs #frenchstudies #francophonestudies #teachingfrench

Born on this day 99 years ago: Moroccan writer Driss Chraïbi. His landmark novel "Le Passé simple" (1954), among other works, continues to be studied in Morocco & beyond. The English translation by Hugh A. Harter was republished in 2020 by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social #DrissChraïbi #Moroccanliterature

"À travers ce récit, l'auteur questionne l'humanité mais rend surtout hommage à Pateh" - Un grand merci à la journaliste et bloggeuse guinéenne Toulaye Diallo pour sa lecture de mon roman "Évocation d'un mémorial à Venise" #roman #PrésenceAfricaine

A new bilingual book on the collaborative work of Wifredo Lam, including projects with Artaud, Césaire, Char, Glissant & others. The book is edited by Jean Khalfa and published by Jean-Michel Place jeanmichelplace.fr/produit/wifr... #WifredoLam #AiméCésaire #EdouardGlissant #RenéChar #AntoninArtaud

📢Job Announcement: The School of Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics at @unioflimerick.bsky.social seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in French for a period of one year, from September 2025. Closing date: 17 July. Details > universityvacancies.com/university-l... #teachingjobs #frenchstudies

Forthcoming in September @politybooks.bsky.social: "African Philosophies", the English translation by Matthew B. Smith of Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux's "Philosophies africaines", first published in 2013 by Présence Africaine politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... #Africanphilosophy #Africa #PrésenceAfricaine

More Maghrebi poetry in translation: "The Desert at Dusk", the English translation by Peter Thompson of Tunisian poet Tahar Bekri's "Désert au crépuscule" (Al Manar, 2018) is now out from Contra Mundum Press www.contramundumpress.com/the-desert-a... #TaharBekri #poetry #Tunisianpoetry #Tunisianpoet

Publication day for my first academic book @livunipress.bsky.social ! If you're interested, please consider asking your university library to order a copy liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #NostalgicRebels #Moroccanliterature #MohammedKhaïrEddine #AbdelkebirKhatibi #AbdellatifLaâbi

Forthcoming in July: "Literature as Sound Studies", a collection edited by yasser elhariry & Liesl Yamaguchi @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social - Chapters on #ThomasDekker #FranzKafka #BorisVian #MohammedKhaïrEddine & others bloomsbury.com/uk/literatur... #soundstudies

📢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

Cette année, le @mdlpparis.bsky.social célèbre la poésie palestinienne & le grand Mahmoud Darwich sera dans tous les esprits. Dans "En AttendantNadeau", ma recension de la dernière anthologie de sa #poésie chez Actes Sud (trad. Elias Sanbar) www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/06/17/m... #MahmoudDarwich

Pour accompagner la poésie palestinienne, invitée d'honneur du @mdlpparis.bsky.social, je publie dans "En Attendant Nadeau" une recension de l'anthologie de la poésie gazaouie de #AbdellatifLaâbi (textes réunis par Yassin Adnan) @editionspoints.bsky.social www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/06/17/l...

Je découvre que mon #roman a fait l'objet d'une lecture en février dernier au Cercle de lecture de Tunis aux côtés du roman de mon confrère de #PrésenceAfricaine Jean-Baptiste Lanne et d'autres livres. Merci à l'Institut Français de Tunisie et aux lectrices/teurs qui ont pris le temps d'en discuter.

"C’est dans le domaine de la poésie que les éléments constitutifs de la culture et de l’identité d’un peuple, de sa sensibilité particulière et même de sa langue se sont construits peu à peu" - Abdellatif Laâbi à propos de la #poésie palestinienne #palestine @orientxxi.bsky.social bit.ly/4429FfG

New book: "Renouveau du cinéma algérien: de la fin de la guerre civile au Hirak (2003-2019)" by Salima Tenfiche @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social The book is based on a dissertation that was awarded the 2023 Prize by @iismm.ehess.fr bit.ly/3ZwT1TX #Algeriancinema #cinema #Algeria #filmstudies #cinéma

Looking forward to reading Holiday Powers's "Moroccan Modernism", published last December by Ohio University Press www.ohioswallow.com/978082142580... #CasablancaArtSchool #FaridBelkahia #MohammedChebaa #MohammedMelehi #modernism #visualart #SoufflesAnfas #panafricanism #panarabism

Jeudi et vendredi derniers, j'ai eu le plaisir de participer à l'excellent colloque consacré à l'œuvre du grand poète marocain Abdellatif Laâbi à La Sorbonne @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social. Grand merci au comité d'organisation, surtout Fadoua Roh. Merci aux participant.e.s ! #AbdellatifLaâbi #colloque

Maghrebi literature has lost a major figure: Tunisian Arabic-language writer Hassouna Mosbahi. Born in 1950. Studied French lit. at the Uni. of Tunis. Spent 20+ years in Munich. His work is translated into English, German & French @syracuseup.bsky.social ‪@aucpress.bsky.social @arablit.bsky.social

Ravi de participer ces Jeudi 5 & Vendredi 6 juin au Colloque "Abdellatif Laâbi : figures et fissures de l'altérité" qui se tient à @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social. Merci au comité d'organisation, surtout Fadoua Roh qui œuvre depuis des années pour la tenue de ce #colloque. Programme > bit.ly/43wiSxO

Forthcoming in November: "Le romantisme français et la renaissance arabe: héritages croisés" by Manel Belhadj Ali @ugaeditions.bsky.social www.uga-editions.com/menu-princip... #Frenchromanticism #romanticism #Nahda #Arabicliterature #ArabAwakening #ArabEnlightenment #renaissancearabe #romantisme

Passed away last Tuesday: Moroccan writer Meriem Hadj Hamou. Born in Casablanca, she worked as a practicing pharmacist in Marrakech. Published two poetry collections, a short story collection, and a novel, "Les racines", released earlier this year by La Croisée des Chemins #Moroccanliterature

Thrilled to share that my book will be published by @livunipress.bsky.social in a month! This has been a long journey that began nearly a decade ago. Deeply grateful to the friends & colleagues who have supported me along the way. Thanks to the editor & the reviewers. bit.ly/3FtoHme #NostalgicRebels

Engaging and thought-provoking talk today at UChicago by @sawadhussain.bsky.social on the power(lessness) of the translator & her experience as a #translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Thank you, Sawad, for sharing your insights & for taking the time to attend our Arabic Nadwa! #translation

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the book launch of Matt Reeck’s long-awaited #translation of Abdelkébir Khatibi's "La Blessure du nom propre" (1974) at Northwestern. "The Wound of the Name" is available from @nupress.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014852... #AbdelkébirKhatibi

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of hosting Raphaël Thierry (Ægitna Literary Agency) for an online talk at UChicago about the role of literary agents & the challenges of African publishing & world literature. Many thanks to Raphaël for such a rich and thought-provoking presentation #Africanpublishing

Ravi & honoré de signer la postface du nouveau recueil de la poétesse palestinienne Olivia Elias aux Éditions Cambourakis. Accompagner la poésie d'Olivia a été pour moi un devoir d'écoute et d'humilité. Un grand merci à elle pour sa confiance www.cambourakis.com/tout/littera... #poésie #OliviaElias