A character from this city refuses to eat the madness-inducing root of a group of cannibals, after which he accumulates (*) jewels by killing the wives of dead husbands in a cavern.
An author who spent most of his life in this city made a thinly-veiled reference to 9/11 in a novel about a Zionist conspiracy defeated by an army that destroys two towers, titled Begone, Demons! The protagonist returns to this city after studying French philosophy abroad in the novel Papa Sartre. A man who jumps overboard on a medieval ship replica ends up in this "City of Peace" in a novel by John Barth. A character from this city refuses to eat the madness-inducing root of a group of cannibals, after which he accumulates (*) jewels by killing the wives of dead husbands in a cavern. Members of the Bravo Squad recall clearing bombs from the streets of this city in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. During his journeys, a character from this city visits the king of Serendib and gets rich off diamonds after being stranded on an island with giant birds. For 10 points, name this home of Sinbad the Sailor.
An author who spent most of his life in this city made a thinly-veiled reference to 9/11 in a novel about a Zionist conspiracy defeated by an army that destroys two towers, titled Begone, Demons!
Baghdad (the first novel is by Saddam Hussein!)