In a memoir from this country, the author recounts his childhood loneliness because his blindness kept him at home while his brother went out with friends. In a novel from this country, a psychiatrist listens to the story of a woman on death row who killed her pimp. This country is the setting of the memoir The Days. In a novel set in this country, a law student is gunned down at a protest. In this country, one character sees his (*) father playing the tambourine, despite the ban on music in the house. The novel Woman at Point Zero is set in this country, as is a novel in which Amina is hit by a car, breaking her collarbone, after she leaves the house and disobeys her husband al-Sayyid Ahmad. For 10 points, name this country which serves as the setting of Palace Walk, the first novel is Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. ■END■
ANSWER: Egypt (The unnamed authors are Taha Hussein and Nawal El Saadawi.)
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