Mémoire · Récit d'enfance
Une enfance à Gabès
Des ruelles bruissantes de cris d'enfants, d'une oasis labyrinthique bordée de palmes, de la nuit du destin et d'une grand-mère poétesse — Abdel-Jaouad raconte avec poésie et émotion la vie de toute une génération dans la Gabès de son enfance.
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Scholarly Essay
Fugues de Barbarie : Les écrivains maghrébins et le surréalisme
A landmark study of surrealism and Maghrebian literature — exploring the deep resonance between surrealist aesthetics and North African literary tradition through the lens of "soufialisme."
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Essay / Literary Theory
La Langue de l'Autre
A meditation on bilingualism, identity, and the politics of language. Khatibi reflects on French as a borrowed and inhabited tongue — a dialogue with Derrida, Pascal Amel, and the condition of the Francophone Maghrebi writer.
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Literary Criticism
Rimbaud et l'Algérie
A psychoanalytical and literary investigation into Algeria's presence throughout Rimbaud's work — from the Latin school prize on Jugurtha to the poet's identification with the Algerian resistance to French occupation.
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Novel · English Translation
Return to Thyna
A novel about Sfax, Tunisia — Bouraoui's native city. Set against the tensions of postcolonial identity, it follows characters navigating history, memory, and freedom. Winner of the Prix de la Ville de Sfax and the Prix du Jury Comar.
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Novel · English Translation
Rain (Diary of an Insomniac)
The most prolific and controversial writer of post-independence North Africa, Boudjedra constructs a world where normalcy becomes bizarre and ironic — a female clinic director navigating Algerian society in a language that is both weapon and wound.
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Poetry · Poèmes 1970–2005
Ombres de mon Soleil
A collected poems spanning 35 years from an American poet writing in French — a rare voice of true multiculturalism, in dialogue with Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Khatibi, Senghor, Césaire, and the full breadth of Francophone poetry.
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Poetry
Hommage à l'Errant
A rhapsodic chant of the desert and exile — wind, sand, and silence. Sehaba's poetry, the most original in the Maghreb today, carries the song of the desert into the French language, making wandering itself a form of transcendence.
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Une enfance à Gabès
Des ruelles bruissantes de cris d'enfants, d'une oasis labyrinthique bordée de palmes, de la nuit du destin et d'une grand-mère poétesse — Abdel-Jaouad raconte avec poésie et émotion la vie de toute une génération dans la Gabès de son enfance.
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