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Alek Baylee Toumi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with specializations in Francophone studies, 20th century literature, Camus-Sartre, theater, French civilization and language and culture. He has taught at Lawrence University, Middlebury College, Louisiana State University, Bates College and Franklin and Marshall College. He has published a series of articles on French and Francophone issues as well as a monograph, Maghreb Divers, on the problem of French language in post colonial North Africa. A poet and playwright, he is the author of seven plays, among them the Sartre-Beauvoir trilogy "Madah-Sartre", "Taxieur" and “De Beauvoir à beau voile” (on the question of veil, school and secularism), as well as "Albert Camus: entre la misère et l’injustice". The English version of Madah-Sartre has just been published by the University of Nebraska Press.
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