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 a plague. An author from this country known as “the dean of [his language’s] literature” was fired from his actual job as a dean of literature for his book on Jahiliyyah poetry. That blind author from this country chronicled his time at the (*) Sorbonne in his memoir The Days. Like Salman Rushdie, an author from this country was stabbed by an extremist for a novel whose title characters are analogs of Adam, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. Amina breaks her collarbone in a car accident in a novel from this country, Palace Walk. For 10 points, name this home country of Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. ■END■
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