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In a novel titled for one of these places, the musicologist Isma takes up filmmaking after her husband beats her for having an affair. A dove is cared for by a man in one of these places who dreams of touching the Kaaba’s black stone and retells the plot of A Streetcar Named Desire. A woman in one of these places recounts taking 3,000 dollars from an Arab prince for sex and ripping it to shreds. (10[1])Testimony (10[1])given in these places (10[1])inspired Tahar Ben (10[1])Jelloun’s (“TAH-her ben zhuh-LOON’s”) This Blinding Absence (10[2])of Light (10[1])and a novel framed as a psychiatrist’s (10[2])interview (10[1])with the ex-prostitute Firdaus (10[1])(“feer-DAOSS”), Nawal (10[1])El (10[1])Saadawi’s (10[1])Woman at Point Zero. (10[1])While in one of these places, an apathetic man angrily rejects a chaplain’s graces (10[1])in favor (10[2])of opening to “the gentle (10[1])indifference of the world.” (-5[1])For 10 points, Meursault (“mer-SOH”) spends (10[1])most of (10[1])the last part of The Stranger in what (10[1])sort of place? ■END■ (10[2])

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