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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. (15[1])That blind author from this country chronicled his time at the (*) Sorbonne in his memoir The Days. Like Salman Rushdie, an author (-5[1])from this country was stabbed by an extremist for a novel whose title characters are analogs of Adam, Moses, (10[1])Jesus, and Muhammad. (10[1])Amina breaks her collarbone in a car accident in a novel from this country, Palace Walk. (10[1])For 10 points, name this home country of Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

ANSWER: Egypt [or Misr] (The second sentence refers to Mahfouz’s novel The Harafish. The third-to-last sentence refers to The Children of Gebelawi.)
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Nitin RaoHarvardYale7515
Khumoyun BakhityarovBrandeis ABrandeis B97-5
Dylan TanouyeTufts BBoston College B11610
Richard LinAmherstMIT11910
Blake JohnsonBoston College ATufts A13510
Richard LimBowdoin CClark Wilson1490
Kayla DrajpuchBrandeis BBrandeis A14910
Lance HulmeBowdoin BClark House1490
Derek FinoClark HouseBowdoin B1490
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