But “the authorities refused to allow it,” I was told by one of the organizers, Fatima Bakhai, a lawyer in Oran, Algeria’s second-largest city. When Camus turns 100 this year, not a single ...

Pour les Algériens, Camus fut un compatriote à temps partiel ... il n’y eut aucun indigène, et qu’Oran ne fut à [ses] yeux qu’une banale préfecture française ».

the Mumbai editor of The Indian Express says readers "are struck by the amazing similarities between how Camus has described all the measures that the Oran city authorities take against the plague ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ doorsteps, dying with violent spasms and blood pouring from their ...