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, 17 years after a teen girl’s new baby is overshadowed by her law student brother’s shooting at a protest against Britain. Yūsuf Idrīs opposed the traditionalism of the blind education minister Ṭāhā Ḥusayn in this city, whose Gamaliya quarter is the home of the Jawad family. For 10 points, the novel Sugar Street ends a trilogy about what city by Naguib Mahfouz? ■END■
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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