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Updated: May 22, 2025

In the city of his birth and rearing, and of the birth and rearing of his Arab fathers generations dead, Habib ben Habib bel-Kalfate looked upon himself in the rebellious, romantic light of a prisoner in exile exile from the streets of Paris where, in his four years, he had tasted the strange delights of the Christian exile from the university where he had dabbled with his keen, light-ballasted mind in the learning of the conqueror.

- O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921