It started with the writer and Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus. He was born in France and wrote many books. This is not all. Camus was born in Algeria, when this country was a French colony. In 1942 he published his “L’Étranger”, in this book the narrator Meursault kills an Arab. 

The Algerian writer Kamel daoud picks up this story by Camus. He gives a name to this nameless Arab. This is not the only twist in the story.

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