Editing Oran (section)

==Representation in other media==
[[File:Place d'armes.jpg|thumb|right|Place 1er novembre (ex.Place d'Armes)]]
[[File:Vue sur Oran - Chapelle de Santa-Cruz.jpg|thumb|right|[[Fort of Santa Cruz (Oran)|Chapelle Santa Cruz]]]]

*[[Albert Camus]]' 1939 essay ''{{ill|The Minotaur (Camus)|lt=The Minotaur|fr|L'Été (Albert Camus)}}'' describes life in Oran.
*Albert Camus' 1947 novel ''[[The Plague (novel)|The Plague]]'' presents a fictional tale of observations of a physician during the emergence and recession of bubonic plague in the 1940s in Oran.
*''[[El Gallardo Español]]'' (1615) by [[Miguel de Cervantes]] takes place in Oran. Other works from Cervantes mention the city, and during the first part of ''[[Don Quixote]],'' the story of the captive takes place here.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abi Ayad |first=Reda |date=2020 |title=Orán y Argel en la obra de Cervantes |url=http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/112447 |doi=10.14198/RevArgel2020.11.03 |issn=2444-4413 |journal=Revista Argelina |issue=11 |doi-access=free |access-date=2023-10-04 |archive-date=2023-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009034017/http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/112447 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*In the movie ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' (1942), the route for refugees fleeing to the Americas was [[Paris]] to [[Marseille]], across the Mediterranean to Oran, then by train, auto or foot to [[Casablanca]]. If they acquired an exit visa, they went on to [[Lisbon]] from there.
*[[Paul Bowles]]' 1949 novel ''[[The Sheltering Sky]]'' mainly takes place in Oran.
*Part of [[Arturo Pérez-Reverte]]'s Capitán Alatriste adventure novel, ''[[Corsarios de Levante]]'' (Pirates of the Levant, 2006), takes place in early 17th-century Oran. The action of the book occurs a few years after the forced expulsion of the last [[Moriscos]] (Spanish Christians of Muslim descent) from Valencia. Oran is featured as a sun-blasted North African military stronghold. Capitán Diego Alatriste finds Oran to be manned by an impoverished garrison of Spanish Christians, living alongside Muslims (some fiercely loyal to Spain), and Sephardic Jews, descendants of refugees from the 1492 expulsions from Spain.
*In the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] drama series ''[[Hornblower (TV series)|Hornblower]]'', Lieutenant Hornblower is sent by Captain Pellew to Oran to obtain supplies, only to discover that the city was suffering from a [[bubonic plague]] epidemic.
*The heroine of [[Geraldine Brooks (writer)|Geraldine Brooks]]' novel, ''[[Year of Wonders]]'', emigrates to Oran after leaving her home village that was quarantined in 1666 due to the plague.
*[[Joann Sfar]]'s graphic novel ''The Rabbi's Cat 2'' begins in Oran.
*[[Kamel Daoud]]'s novel ''[[The Meursault Investigation]]'' is set in a bar in Oran.<ref>{{cite news|title='The Meursault Investigation,' by Kamel Daoud|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/the-meursault-investigation-by-kamel-daoud.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=10 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612024424/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/the-meursault-investigation-by-kamel-daoud.html?_r=0|archive-date=12 June 2015|url-status=live|date = 2015-06-08|last1 = Lalami|first1 = Laila}}</ref>