Question
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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Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 17% | 67% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 89% | 22% | 22% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
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| Brown A | BU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tufts A | Dartmouth A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard A | Harvard B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brandeis A | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |