“My brother’s identify was Musa. He had a reputation. However he’ll stay ‘the Arab’ perpetually.”
“I preferred doubt.” Kamel Daoud (Photograph: Claude Truong-Ngoc, Wikimedia Commons) In Albert’s Camus’ 1942 The Stranger, a French transport clerk named Meursault shoots an Arab man on the Mediterranean seaside. Algerian creator Kamel Daoud retells Camus’ well-known story from the perspective of the useless man’s household: “My brother’s identify was Musa. He had a reputation. However he’ll stay ‘the Arab’ perpetually.” […]