Question

In a story set in this city, a judge sexually exploits a maid, then finds her squalid home and browbeats her for stealing his watch. A leftist doctor wrote about this city’s poor in stories like “The Dregs of the City”; that author of The Cheapest Nights argued that his rival’s novels about this city were dubbed “narrative art that applies to all mankind” for copying European realism. A novel set in this city ends with the arrest of a Communist and his anticolonial brother in 1944, (-5[1])17 (-5[1])years after a teen girl’s new baby is overshadowed by her law student brother’s shooting at a protest against Britain. (10[2])Yūsuf Idrīs opposed the traditionalism of the blind education minister Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (10[1])in this city, (10[4])whose Gamaliya quarter (10[1])is the home (10[1])of the Jawad family. (10[6])For 10 points, the novel Sugar Street (10[4])ends (10[1])a trilogy (10[1])about what city by (10[1])Naguib Mahfouz? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Cairo [or al-Qāhirah; accept Cairo Trilogy or al-Thulāthiyyah al-Qāhirah; accept Cairene literature (The trilogy’s first two parts are Palace Walk and Palace of Desire.)
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Summary

2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y24100%0%8%131.17

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond ChenToronto AGeorgia Tech86-5
Jim FanNorth Carolina ACornell A87-5
Chris SimsNorthwesternIllinois10710
Charles HangWUSTL AMinnesota A10710
Jakob MyersIndianaTexas11910
Andrew HannaPennClaremont Colleges12210
Caleb KendrickMarylandMichigan12210
Matt JacksonChicago AChicago B12210
Ashish SubramanianDukeWUSTL B12210
Jared HeWaterlooPurdue12510
Karsten RynearsonYale ANYU12810
Jack RadoColumbia BFlorida13210
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaBerkeley B13210
Moses KitakuleColumbia AStanford13210
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillVanderbilt13210
Aum MundheRutgersOttawa13210
Joseph ChambersVirginiaArizona State13210
Seth EbnerJohns HopkinsBrown13910
Joy AnHarvardChicago C13910
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AIowa State13910
Ben WismathToronto BYale B13910
Urbas EkkaMinnesota BCornell B14010
Andrew EllisKentuckyNorth Carolina B14210
Fred GarveyTruman StateChicago D14610
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia TechToronto A14910
Nathan ZhangCornell ANorth Carolina A14910