Khalid Lyamlahy

Today at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social! #VeniceRequiem #booklaunch

Sad to hear about the passing of Lebanese #poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata. In 2017, I reviewed for #ThePoetryReview
@poetrysociety.org.uk "A Handful of Blue Earth" @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, trans. Marilyn Hacker, alongside A. Laâbi's anthology "In Praise of Defeat" poetrysociety.org.uk/book-review-...

Just published by Editions Barzakh in Algiers: "Lire, écrire et traduire #MaïssaBey". Includes contributions from Maïssa Bey's translators into Arabic, Italian, and Swedish, scholars from Algeria, France, and Mauritania, as well as authors and publishers #editionsbarzakh #Algerianliterature

Contes du sang versé - En attendant Nadeau Le destin de certains livres ressemble à une course d’obstacles. Les nouvelles réunies dans Trent-Sis de Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) n’ont fait l’objet, du vivant de l’écrivaine, que d’une édition c...

"Moustadraf peint surtout, à hauteur de corps, les signes microscopiques, infra-ordinaires, de la violence sociale" - Brillante recension par Chakib Ararou de "Trent-Sis", recueil de #nouvelles de l'écrivaine marocaine Malika Moustadraf chez Cambourakis www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/01/27/m...

#BookoftheWeek

Venice Requiem by @khalidlym.bsky.social, translated by Ros Schwartz and published by @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social — “A vibrant and poetic tribute to all African migrants. A necessary book” (Jury of the Alain Spiess Second Novel Prize).

👉 www.hoperoadpublishing.com/books/venice...

Khalid Lyamlahy in the UK for the release of Venice Requiem - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni Based on the true story of Pateh Sabally, a 22-year-old Gambian refugee who died in Venice’s Grand Canal in 2017, the novel follows a narrator trying to understand the events that led to his death. Th...

Next week, I'll be in London & Oxford to present "Venice Requiem", the English translation by @rosschwa.bsky.social of my novel, published by @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social. Thanks @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social for the support! www.institut-francais.org.uk/khalid-lyaml... #VeniceRequiem #booklaunch

📢Job Alert: The Department of French and Francophone Studies at @batescollege.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time, two-year visiting assistant professor position, to begin July 2026. Details: apply.interfolio.com/180432 #teachingjobs #francophonestudies #Frenchstudies

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

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...

Book Presentation: 'Venice Requiem' by Khalid Lyamlahy, translated by Ros Schwartz With author Khalid Lyamlahy (University of Chicago) and translator Ros Schwartz I Chaired by: Jane Hiddleston (Exeter)

Friends & Colleagues in Oxford: @rosschwa.bsky.social and I will be presenting my #novel "Venice Requiem" @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social on Friday 6 Feb. 5:15pm at @mfoxford.bsky.social. We will be in conversation with Jane Hiddleston @exeter.ox.ac.uk mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/book-p... #VeniceRequiem

Thank you so much, Sarah!

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

Venice Requiem | Litro Magazine A Litro #TuesdayTales feature on Venice Requiem, a translated novel by Khalid Lyamlahy — Venice, memory, migration, and the ethics of witness.

LITRO Magazine opens their 2026 World Series with Venice Requiem by Khalid Lyamlahy, translated by Ros Schwartz publishing February 5th by HopeRoad.

Pre-order now on directly or with your local indie.

www.litromagazine.com/world-series...

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📢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

"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...
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"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...
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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".

Impressions algériennes - En attendant Nadeau L’Algérie est un pays qui a le privilège d’être raconté dans plusieurs langues : d’Assia Djebar avec La Beauté de Joseph à L’Année infertile, de de Khier Chouar et Un moment inopportun pour acheter du...

"Trois publications qui livrent des impressions outrepassant, par leur finesse, les discours stéréotypés sur l’univers de la création" en Algérie - Brillante lecture par Faris Lounis de 3 textes aux #EditionsBarzakh: www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/01/09/i... #AssiaDjebar #GhizlanTouati #KhierChouar

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.

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

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.

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