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In a 1983 story set in this city, a muezzin’s call to prayer interrupts a woman’s intercourse with her husband, who then suddenly dies of a heart attack. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city where Alifa Rifaat set the story “Distant View of a Minaret.” Jackie Kennedy edited the English translation of Palace Walk, a novel in a 1950s trilogy set in this capital city by Naguib Mahfouz.
ANSWER: Cairo
[10m] Rifaat’s story “My World of the Unknown” depicts a woman’s affair with a female one of these characters. In another story, one of these characters goes to a pool with talking fish after learning that Solomon has been dead for centuries.
ANSWER: djinn [or genies; or jinni] (The story is the second story in One Thousand and One Nights.)
[10h] This Egyptian physician-turned-author wrote the anti-FGM tract Women and Sex and fictionalized her own imprisonment in the 1975 novel Woman at Point Zero.
ANSWER: Nawal El Saadawi
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TournamentEditionHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
California2025-02-01313.33100%0%33%
Florida2025-02-0136.6767%0%0%
Great Lakes2025-02-01611.67100%17%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-0166.6767%0%0%
Midwest2025-02-01618.33100%17%67%
North2025-02-01310.00100%0%0%
Northeast2025-02-01510.0080%20%0%
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01210.00100%0%0%
South Central2025-02-01210.00100%0%0%
Southeast2025-02-01415.00100%0%50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01913.3389%22%22%
Upstate NY2025-02-01310.00100%0%0%