Question

An author using this first name wrote a novel in which Zunaira is horrified to learn that her husband Mohsen helped to stone a woman in the marketplace. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this first name, shared by the pseudonymous author of The Swallows of Kabul and the author of a play in which a man defaces a painting by drawing a skier, not knowing that he’s using washable ink.
ANSWER: Yasmina [or Yasmina Khadra; or Yasmina Reza; prompt on Mohammed Moulessehoul by asking “what is the first name of that author’s pen name?”]
[10e] Yasmina Khadra and Yasmina Reza both write in this language, which was also used for the play No Exit.
ANSWER: French [or Français]
[10m] In Yasmina Khadra’s novel What the Day Owes to the Night, Younes moves in with a wealthy pharmacist in this city. In another novel, Bernard Rieux sees rats die in the streets of this city.
ANSWER: Oran [or Wahrān]
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Johns HopkinsColumbia C0101020
NYU AHaverford10101030
John JayVassar0101020
PennNYU B10101030
Columbia ARowan10101030