Characters
Locations
History
Plot
100

The mother in the play

Who is Asakir?

100

The city where Ilwan went to university

Where is Cairo?

100

The country of the playwright

Where is Egypt?

100

The main tension in the play

What is vengeance?

200

The nephew in the play

Who is Simeida?

200

The region of the village

Where is Upper Egypt?

200

The justice system in the region

What is an honor code?

200

Transportation method between the university and the village

What is a train?

300

The sister-in-law in the play

Who is Mabruka?

300

The location where Ilwan was supposedly dead

Where is the sluice of the waterwheel?

300

The name of the genre of this play in the Middle East

What is tazieh?

300

The mother's request from her nephew

What is to kill Ilwan? (weird sentence but...)

400

The supposed killer of the dad

Who is Suweilam Tahawi?

400
The name of the university

What is Holy al-Azhar?

400

The religious figure they refer to (not Muhammad)

Who is Hussein?

400

Ilwan's dream

What is modernization?

500
The teacher in the village

Who is Sheikh Muhammad Isnawi?

500

The materials for the walls of the house

What are mud and animal droppings?
500

The two religious sects that create the tension in the region

What are sunnism and shiism (sunni and shiite)?

500

The mother's preferred job for Ilwan

What is a butcher?

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