KAMEL DAOUD IS the author of The Meursault survey, first published in France in 2014 and here in the United States a year later, earning it acclaimed international reviews including the Prix Goncourt and rave reviews and reviews in The New Yorker and The New York Times. The novel, a …

Living in the inhospitable area crisscrossed by the borders of Libya, Chad, Niger and Sudan, the Tébou – a non-Arab indigenous peoples – experience an unprecedented cultural awakening, thanks to their very first alphabet and to a cultural center. “It is something that does not compare to anything else,” said …