Identity has become a central concept in contemporary scholarship because of the major role it plays in defining societies and cultures. Without a clear sense of identity, society risks becoming a silent signifier without meaning. Algerian literature in general, and the novel in particular, is among the forms that seek to illuminate and preserve national identity. Yasmina Khadra’s In the Name of God offers a significant example. The novel represents Algeria through events rooted in its social and political environment. Although Khadra resides in France and writes in French, his fiction remains closely connected to Algeria, his country of origin. This study examines a set of tensions that structure this writing: origin and residence, Algeria and France, self and other, and Arabic and French. Together, these oppositions contribute to the formation of an Algerian cultural consciousness. The study asks how the duality of origin and residence appears in In the Name of God and how identity is represented in the novel. It first considers features of Khadra’s writing in exile. It then analyzes identity through three narrative components: space, time, and character. The study concludes by assessing the extent to which the novelist succeeds in representing the identity of his country of origin through the language of his country of residence.