A being composed of these objects recruits the Magician, the Sophist, and three madmen as he plots to kill a Venezuelan arms dealer. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects that a junk dealer uses to make a “Whatitsname” that reminds the Assyrian widow Elishva of her son Daniel in a 2013 novel. An art student works with these objects in a mghaysil (“muh-GAY-sill”) in a Sinan Antoon novel.
ANSWER: corpses [or carcasses, cadavers, human bodies, dead body, or equivalents; accept body parts or limbs; accept The Corpse Washer; prompt on parts by asking “of what?”]
[10e] The Corpse Washer, Hassan Blassim’s The Corpse Exhibition, and a 2013 novel inspired by Frankenstein are all set during this war featured in Phil Klay’s Redeployment.
ANSWER: Iraq War [or descriptions of the 2003 invasion of Iraq; or Operation Iraqi Freedom; or ḥarb al-‘irāq; prompt on War on Terror] (The 2013 novel is Frankenstein in Baghdad.)
[10m] The author of Frankenstein in Baghdad has this surname. An Egyptian author with this surname fictionalized herself as the interviewer of the death-row inmate Firdaus in Woman at Point Zero.
ANSWER: Saadawi [accept Elsa‘dāwī or Al-Saadawi; accept Nawal El Saadawi; accept Ahmed Saadawi]
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