Alek Baylee Toumi is a professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He studied mathematics and engineering, and has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Masters of literature and a Ph.D. in Francophone studies and theater. A long time actor, he was a member of the troupe of Judith G. Miller in Madison. A scholar, poet and playwright, he is the author of ten books among them Maghreb Divers, the Sartre-Beauvoir trilogy: Madah-Sartre, Taxieur, and De Beauvoir à beau voile, as well as Alger(tu)ries, Alger(tu)pleures, and two plays on Camus: Albert Camus: Between my Mother and Injustice and Exiles from Algiers.