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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 (15[1])fired from his actual job as a dean of literature for his book on Jahiliyyah poetry. That blind author from this country (15[1])chronicled his time at the (*) Sorbonne in his memoir The Days. Like Salman (10[1])Rushdie, an author from this country was stabbed by an extremist for a novel (10[2])whose title characters are analogs of Adam, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. Amina breaks her collarbone in a car accident in a novel from this country, Palace Walk. For 10 points, name this home country of Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. ■END■

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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Anne FjeldPaddington in Peru (2024)Social credit go vroom5915
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