Round 10: Tossup 2

An author who wrote in this language and English created a series of essays structured as questions from a seeress to a visitor leaving Orphalese. A novel in this language allegorizes Abrahamic religious figures like (15[2])Moses and Jesus (15[1])to residents of an alley. A mother is kicked out of her home after she breaks her collarbone in a car accident in a (15[1])trilogy (-5[1])in this language (15[1])whose entries include (*) Sugar Street and Palace Walk. A series of stories in (-5[1])this language include one in which thieves hide in oil jars and another in which rocs are encountered by Sinbad the Sailor. (10[1])For 10 points, name this language (10[1])used by Naguib Mahfouz to write his Cairo (10[1])Trilogy. ■END■ (10[7]0[4])

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