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Why doesn't the prisoner have a name?

Just called Arab

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Camus leaves the Arab prisoner's name out to illustrate a sense of otherness in the Arab's own country. While the setting is Algeria, it is French occupied. Camus wants to highlight the absurdity of an Arab prisoner being arrested under French law in a country that belongs to the Arab.