A very early text from this country concerns a government functionary who flees to Israel after hearing of a murder plot against the king.
A very early text from this country concerns a government functionary who flees to Israel after hearing of a murder plot against the king. A later text tells of a brother, Bata, who is rewarded with a wife made out of clay by the god Khnum, although that wife later betrays him. An author from this country wrote a novel about a man who smokes hashish to forget his government's hypocrisy. That man also wrote of Kamal, the son of Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, in a series that included Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street. For 10 points, name this country, the setting of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy.
A very early text from this country concerns a government functionary who flees to Israel after hearing of a murder plot against the king.
Egypt