In a 1983 story set in this city, a muezzin’s call to prayer interrupts a woman’s intercourse with her husband, who then suddenly dies of a heart attack. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city where Alifa Rifaat set the story “Distant View of a Minaret.” Jackie Kennedy edited the English translation of Palace Walk, a novel in a 1950s trilogy set in this capital city by Naguib Mahfouz.
ANSWER: Cairo
[10m] Rifaat’s story “My World of the Unknown” depicts a woman’s affair with a female one of these characters. In another story, one of these characters goes to a pool with talking fish after learning that Solomon has been dead for centuries.
ANSWER: djinn [or genies; or jinni] (The story is the second story in One Thousand and One Nights.)
[10h] This Egyptian physician-turned-author wrote the anti-FGM tract Women and Sex and fictionalized her own imprisonment in the 1975 novel Woman at Point Zero.
ANSWER: Nawal El Saadawi
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