In addition to "The Answer is No" and "The Conjurer Made Off With the Dish", this author wrote a novel in which Gamasa captures a genie that puts a double in his place that gets beheaded after the ruler decrees that no more virgins shall be killed.
This author wrote a short story in which onlookers waiting for a bus observe a series of tragedies in the rain, "Beneath the Shelter". In addition to "The Answer is No" and "The Conjurer Made Off With the Dish", this author wrote a novel in which Gamasa captures a genie that puts a double in his place that gets beheaded after the ruler decrees that no more virgins shall be killed. Said Mahran is the title character of this man's novel The Thief and the Dogs, and (*) Ahmad al-Jawad is the patriarch of the family at the center of this author's most famous work. For ten points, identify this author of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street, the Egyptian who wrote the Cairo Trilogy.
This author wrote a short story in which onlookers waiting for a bus observe a series of tragedies in the rain, "Beneath the Shelter".
Naguib {Mahfouz}