One of this author's protagonists seeks his father in a classified ad before strangling Karima.  In 
One of this author's protagonists seeks his father in a classified ad before strangling Karima.  In another of his works, a young man kills his boss on the same day that his country's president is shot.  This author of The Search and The Day the Leader Died wrote about Hamida, who is lured into prostitution by Ibrahim Faraj in one work, and another novel centers on sons that are cast out of their father's house who live in an alley. Midaq Alley and Children of Gebelawi, for 10 points, are works by this author of Sugar Street, Palace Walk, and Palace of Desire, which comprise his Cairo Trilogy.
One of this author's protagonists seeks his father in a classified ad before strangling Karima.  
Naguib Mahfouz