Question
After writing a doctoral thesis on an “obscure English poet,” Mustafa Sa’eed returns to the village of Wad Hamid in this country. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country, where Mustafa recounts his affairs with British women before drowning himself in Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North.
ANSWER: Sudan [or Republic of the Sudan; or Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān]
[10e] Mustafa drowns himself in the Nile River, which is also the setting of this author’s novel Adrift on the Nile. This author included Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street in his Cairo Trilogy.
ANSWER: Naguib Mahfouz
[10h] In a short story by Salih, the protagonist sticks a finger down his throat to throw up this title food after witnessing his grandfather extort their neighbor, Masood.
ANSWER: dates [or tamr; accept “A Handful of Dates”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 75% | 38% | 25% |
Data
| Bristol | Cambridge C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge B | Warwick | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Durham A | Edinburgh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| KCL | Durham B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oxford C | Kiel | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Sheffield | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |