Iran
Before the 1930s, Iran was known by this name.
What is Persia?
Where specifically does this novel take place?
What is an Egyptian Women's Prison?
The three "fathers" of 20th century MENA literature come from this nation.
What is Egypt?
This is a person who has lost the protection of his or her country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution.
What is a refugee?
This term refers to camels with bi-colored coats?
What is a piebald?
This is the official language of Iran.
What is Persian?
This character has imagined that a Golden Chariot will take all the deserving women to heaven.
Who is Aziza?
This was the main form of literature in the region until the twentieth century.
What is poetry?
This story by Liana Badr features a Palestinian woman who experiences exile in Beirut, then later, a country in North Africa.
What is "Colors"?
What extremely contagious skin disease afflicted the camel in Gold Dust?
What is mange?
This title referred to the leader of Iran from 1925-1979.
What is the Shah of Iran?
Jamalat, arrested for theft, has contemplated what new career, because she is tired of all this "strain and stress."
What is prostitution?
This father of MENA literature was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Naguib Mahfouz?
This writer's stories feature women in exile in the collection of stories, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment.
Who is Assia D'jebar?
A breed of camel originating in the Arabian peninsula.
What is a Mahri?
This controversial piece of women's clothing was forbidden in 1936, required after 1979, and the source of violent protests in 2022 and 2023.
What is the headscarf/hijab/veil?
The decade in which The Golden Chariot was written.
What is the 1990s?
This author believed his anti-Israel stance cost him the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was given to another "Father" of MENA lit.
Who was Yusuf Idris?
By definition, refugees, migrants, and internally-displaced persons all fall within this category.
What is forced migration?
Camels express their sadness in this very human way.
What is crying/tears?
This honorific title is used for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq and came into widespread usage in the 20th century.
What is Ayatollah?
This offense previously carried the death penalty, but Umm El- Khayr's sentence was commuted.
What is drug trafficking?
This author wrote the humorous "How I became a Demon of the Djinn."
Who is Ibrahim al-Mazini?
This writer was in exile in Beirut when he was assassinated.
Who is Ghassan Kanafani?
In addition to water, the retention of this helps camels survive in the desert.
What is fat?