Cairo - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

In a 1983 story set in this city, a muezzin’s call to prayer interrupts a woman’s intercourse with her husband, who then suddenly dies of a heart attack. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this city where Alifa Rifaat set the story “Distant View of a Minaret.” Jackie Kennedy edited the English translation of Palace Walk, a novel in a 1950s trilogy set in this capital city by Naguib Mahfouz.

ANSWER: Cairo

[10m] Rifaat’s story “My World of the Unknown” depicts a woman’s affair with a female one of these characters. In another story, one of these characters goes to a pool with talking fish after learning that Solomon has been dead for centuries.

ANSWER: djinn [or genies; or jinni] (The story is the second story in One Thousand and One Nights.)

[10h] This Egyptian physician-turned-author wrote the anti-FGM tract Women and Sex and fictionalized her own imprisonment in the 1975 novel Woman at Point Zero.

ANSWER: Nawal El Saadawi

<AP, World Literature>

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	17%	67%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	13.33	89%	22%	22%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Michigan State	Michigan D	10	0	0	10
UNC B	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
South Carolina	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
UNC C	William & Mary	10	0	0	10
UBC	Alberta	10	0	0	10
UW A	UW B	10	0	0	10
UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	10	0	10	20
Claremont B	UCSD	10	0	0	10
UCLA	UC Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Florida B	Florida A	10	0	0	10
Valencia A	UCF B	10	0	0	10
UCF C	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon A	Kenyon	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Carnegie Mellon B	10	0	0	10
Case Western A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Case Western B	Ohio State A	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Minnesota B	10	0	0	10
Winona State	Wisconsin A	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	10	0	0	10
Brown A	BU	10	0	0	10
Tufts A	Dartmouth A	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Harvard B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis B	UMass Boston	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	ESF A	10	0	0	10
Cornell D	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	10	0	0	10
UNC D	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Duke	10	0	0	10
Liberty B	Wake Forest	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Illinois C	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Chicago D	WashU A	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	WashU B	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Missouri	Missoui S&T	10	0	10	20
Texas A	ASU	10	0	0	10
TAMU	Texas B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Louisville A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Bruin A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	10	20
Cornell B	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Haverford A	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
John Jay College	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Rutgers A	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
NYU B	Haverford B	10	0	10	20
Penn A	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
George Washington A	Penn B	0	0	0	0