Question

Amna falls in love with an engineer she intended to murder in a novel from this country, The Call of the Curlew. A literary group nicknamed the “hoodlums” was named after a novel from this country about a line of chieftains whose patriarch escapes (-5[1])a plague. An author from this country known as “the dean of (15[1])[his language’s] (15[1])literature” (15[3]-5[1])was (15[1])fired from his actual job as a dean of literature (-5[1])for his book on Jahiliyyah poetry. (15[2])That blind author from this country (15[1])chronicled his time at the (*) Sorbonne in his memoir The Days. Like Salman (10[2])Rushdie, (-5[1])an author (-5[1])from this (-5[1])country (-5[1])was stabbed (10[1])by (10[1])an extremist (10[1]-5[1])for a novel (10[3])whose title characters are analogs of Adam, (10[3])Moses, (10[3])Jesus, (10[1])and (10[1])Muhammad. (10[3]-5[1])Amina breaks her collarbone (10[2])in (10[1])a car accident (10[1]0[1])in (10[1])a novel (10[1])from this country, Palace Walk. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[2])name this home country of Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[4])

ANSWER: Egypt [or Misr] (The second sentence refers to Mahfouz’s novel The Harafish. The third-to-last sentence refers to The Children of Gebelawi.)
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