Khalid Chaouch, PhD from Toulouse-le-Mirail University (1995), is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sultan Moulay Slimane University in Beni Mellal, Morocco. He currently teaches 'Representation in Drama and Theatre,' 'Moroccan and Anglo-American Relations', and 'Film Analysis.' He is the author of L'Evolution dramatique chez le dramaturge américain Clifford Odets, 1906-1963 (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Septentrion, France, 1998,) Humble Odysseys (Najah, Mohammedia, 2002), a play that won the British Council Prize for Moroccan Writers in English (in Drama, July 2000), and a collection of poems entitled Muffled Rhythms (Nadir Print, Beni Mellal, 2010). He contributed to national and international journals with papers on cross-cultural issues, travel writing, film analysis, theater criticism, and Arab astronomy.