Alek Baylee Toumi

 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Foreign Languages  CCC 414
Stevens Point, WI 54481
 atoumi@uwsp.edu  
(O) 715-346-2791

PUBLICATIONS

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MADAH-SARTRE:  
The kidnapping, trial and conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

 

English version of French play;

University of Nebraska Press: March, 2007

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Madah-Sartre,673122.aspx

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Introducer of Tahar Djaout's The Last Summer of Reason  

Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Foreword by Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize Laureate
Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Alek Baylee Toumi

ISBN 978-0-8032-1591-7   146 pg, 2007
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Last-Summer-of-Reason,673300.aspx

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TRILOGY IN FRENCH ABOUT SARTRE AND BEAUVOIR

Madah-Sartre : Le kidnapping, jugement et conver(sat/s)ion de Jean-Paul Sartre et de Simone de Beauvoir mis en scene par les islamistes du Groupe International Arme.   French play in seven acts; Paris: Marsa, "Algerie Litterature. Action," Dec 96-Jan 97; also published in Cinq Oeuvres Algeriennes, Paris, Marsa, 2000    ISBN 9961-848-58-6 Marsa Editions 103, bd MacDonald   75019 Paris Te. 01 40 16 06 23   marsa@free.fr ainsi qu’au  27 rue de Rochechouart, Paris 9e.(Metro: Cadet)

 

 

 

Taxieur:  La liberation  miracul/ri)euse de Jean-Paul Sartre; French drama, second part of the trilogy in "Nouveau theatre algerien", Editions Marsa, Paris, 2001 ; also in "Anthologie du Nouveau theatre algerien"

http://www.algerie-litterature.com/

ainsi qu’au  27 rue de Rochechouart, Paris 9e (Metro: Cadet)
 

 

De Beauvoir à beau voile:
third part of the Sartre-Beauvoir trilogy; 
Paris: Marsa, Sep 2005

ISBN       291 3868-63-0
Prix          12 euros
Editions Marsa, 27 rue de Rochechouart, Paris   (Mdtro Cadet ;
          ouvert mar, jeu-sam 15:00-19:30)

http://www.marsa@free.fr

http://www.fnac.com/   

 Mets le hidjab et devient Simone de Beauvoile… ! Apres avoir ete enlevee par le GIA dans Madah-Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir revient ici discuter avec ses voileuses sur l’ecole, la laïcite, le hidjab et la lutte des femmes, dans une atmosphere tragi-comique ou la realite depasse souvent l’absurde.

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    A la memoire de Katia Bengana, assassinee pour avoir refuse
de porter le hidjab en Algerie.
    A la memoire de la jeune Sohane, brulee vive, dans une cave
a Vitry sur Seine.
    Aux femmes battues puis violes a Hassi Messaoud, en mai 2001, victimes de preches islamistes de la haine.
    Aux resistantes de SOS Femmes en detresse, de Rachda,
et de  Ni Putes Ni Soumises.
    A la memoire de Samira Bellil

Submitted works

 

De Kabylie et d'exils:
Memoire des Annees de chaïnes, de haines, et d’humiliations
collection of texts of poetry and prose, 2007

Albert Camus: Exils d’Alger  second play about Albert Camus, 2008

A Battle of Algiers: O... Ben M'hidi   ( torture vs. terrorisme)

Works in progress

Bleed… Ah, Fanon: Frantz Fanon revisits his hospital in Blida, is surrounded by terrorists of the GIA.  He is forced to confront his own justifications of violence.

Le tempê(s)te: a rewriting of Aime Cesaire rewriting of Shakespeare’s Tempest, in a post colonial world

PUBLICATIONS about MADAH-SARTRE

Articles, reviews and interviews

Je ne suis chez moi nulle part : entretien avec l’�crivain francophone Alek Baylee Toumi interview given to Fr�quences Francophones, Bulgarie, n 3, Fall 2004, pg 25-27

That was then, this is now: The battle of Algiers and After, article by Professor David Prochaska, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Radical History Review, issue 85, Winter 2003, pg 133-46.

Baylee, Alek: Taxieur, La lib�ration  miracul/ri)euse de Jean-Paul Sartre; review by Professor Elwood Hartman, Washington State University, French Review, Vol 76, No. 3, Feb 2003, Pg 630-31

Ghost walking in Algiers? Why Alek Baylee Toumi resurrected Sartre and de Beauvoir. Article by Professor James Le Sueur, Modern & Contemporary France, vol 10, n. 4 , Birmingham / Leeds: Carfax Publishing, Nov 01, 2002, pg  507-518.

Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria, The politics of Identity, forward by Pierre Bourdieu, The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, pg 256-260.

Madah-Sartre: Le kidnapping, jugement et conver(sat/s)ion de Jean-Paul Sartre et de Simone de Beauvoir mis en sc�ne par les islamistes du Groupe International Arm�.  Review by Professor Judy Graves Miller, The French Review, Vol 73, n 9. Oct. 1999, pp 156-57.

Alek Baylee interviews Nicky Diana Marquardt, about the "Alg�rie: Je ne quiterai pas mes amis", Paris April 17, 1997", Le caf� de l'exil,  editions Marsa, Col. Alg�rie Litt�rature Action 10-11, April-May 1997, pp 257-262. 

Alek Baylee: interview  given to Parisian theater magazine Cassandre,  Paris, May, 1997.

L'auteur r�pond aux questions : interview d'Alek BAYLEE, Paris: Marsa editions, Dec 1996, p 99-102.

PUBLIC READINGS

Play: Madah-Sartre

Invited speaker for a public reading of Madah-Sartre
Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, October 7, 2005

Invited speaker for a public reading of Madah-Sartre
World Congress of the American Association of Teachers of French, Atlanta, July 21, 2004

Invited author for a public reading of Madah-Sartre at the
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, New Orleans, LA, June 19, 2003

Invited author for the staging of Madah-Sartre by French Departement students,
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, May 29-31, 2002

Invited speaker for a public reading at the “Lecture d’oeuvres humouristiques”
Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA  December 28, 2001

Invited author for the public reading/performance of Madah-Sartre at the
Th��tre International de Langue Fran�aise, Paris, France
Ewa Lewinson director, Gabriel Garran presenter, June 17, 1997

Invited author to attend the public reading/performance at the
Th��tre Paris-Villette, Parc de la Villette, Paris
(The reading was directed by Maurice Benichou, director, long time collaborator of
Peter Brook, and actor (in Le destin fabuleux d’Am�lie Poulain), December 12, 1998

Invited speaker at the Colloque International on Litt�ratures Alg�riennes Comtemporaines,  
"Ecriture Nouvelle Ecriture" University York-Glendon,  Toronto, Canada May 13-16, 1999

Levez le rideau! 
Invited speaker for a public reading of Madah-Sartre by the author Alek Baylee and
Yvette Benayoun-Szmidt,  University York-Glendon, Toronto, Canada, May 14, 1999

Invited speaker by the Th��tre Paris-Villette, Humour et trag�die," at the "Alg�rie, une guerre sans image" conference series:  Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, December 12, 1998

Invited speaker at the "Maghrebian Art Festival, Recovering the Past" Conference on the Maghreb, SUNY-Binghamton,  April 17 and April 18, 1998
•  Public reading of Madah-Sartre
•  Public reading of Acad�mie-Academia

Play: Albert Camus: entre la m�re et l’injustice

Invited speaker for a public reading at the Rencontres m�diterran�ennes Albert Camus
with the participation of Catherine Camus, daughter of the author,
Lourmarin, France, October 10-11, 2003

Considered for staging by le th��tre de L’�p�e de bois,
Cartoucherie de Vincennes, Paris, 2003

Invited speaker for a public reading at the Colloque International Albert Camus,
sponsored by Amiti�s Camusiennes, Poitiers, France, May 31, 2003

Adapted for the radio France Culture by Les Ateliers de Theatre Thierry Hamon and
Considered for staging by le th��tre Thierry Hamon, Paris and Brittany, France, 2002

Public reading at the Symposium on Transnational Cultures, Diasporas and Immigrant Identities in France and the Francophone world, followed by a debate with the author,
Texas Tech University,  March 22, 2002

Reviewed by Catherine Camus-daughter of Albert Camus;
adapted for the radio by France Culture, Paris, France, Spring 2002.

Invited speaker for a public reading at the Colloque International Albert Camus,
Soci�t� des Etudes Camusiennes, University of  Cergy Pontoise-Paris,  November 22, 2001

Play: De Beauvoir � beau voile

Invited author to give a public reading “De Beauvoir � beau voile”
World Congress - American Association of Teachers of French, Milwaukee, WI, July 7, 2006