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Packet H: Bonus 7

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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HeardPPBE %M %H %
5211.7390%10%17%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Cornell BColumbia B1001020EH
George Washington APenn B0000
Haverford AGeorge Washington B100010E
John Jay CollegeVassar A1010020EM
Maryland BRutgers A100010E
NYU AJohns Hopkins A100010E
NYU BHaverford B1001020EH
Penn AColumbia C100010E
Yale AMaryland A1010020EM

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
California2025-02-01✓313.33100%0%33%
Florida2025-02-01✓36.6767%0%0%
Great Lakes2025-02-01✓611.67100%17%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓66.6767%0%0%
Midwest2025-02-01✓618.33100%17%67%
North2025-02-01✓310.00100%0%0%
Northeast2025-02-01✓510.0080%20%0%
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01✓210.00100%0%0%
South Central2025-02-01✓210.00100%0%0%
Southeast2025-02-01✓415.00100%0%50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓913.3389%22%22%
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓310.00100%0%0%