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In a story set in this city, a judge sexually exploits a maid, then finds her squalid home and browbeats her for stealing his watch. A leftist doctor wrote about this city’s poor in stories like “The Dregs of the City”; that author of The Cheapest Nights argued that his rival’s novels about this city were dubbed “narrative art that applies to all mankind” for copying European realism. A novel set in this city ends with the arrest of a Communist and his anticolonial brother in 1944, (-5[1])17 (-5[1])years after a teen girl’s new baby is overshadowed by her law student brother’s shooting at a protest against Britain. (10[2])Yūsuf Idrīs opposed the traditionalism of the blind education minister Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (10[1])in this city, (10[4])whose Gamaliya quarter (10[1])is the home (10[1])of the Jawad family. (10[6])For 10 (10[1])points, the novel Sugar Street (10[4])ends (10[1])a trilogy (10[1])about what city by (10[1])Naguib Mahfouz? ■END■ (10[2])

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