aglabides

Updated: May 25, 2025

To the left, close at his shoulder, Mohammed Sherif Mohammed the laughing and the well-beloved Mohammed, with whom in the long, white days he used to chase lizards by the pool of the Aglabides ... in the long, white, happy days, while beyond the veil of palms the swaying camel palanquins of women, like huge bright blooms, went northward up the Tunis road.... What made him think of that?

- O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921