Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): In one novel by this author, the protagonist starts taking shisha to escape the realities of his life. In the fifth section of another work by this author, the title of which is alternatively translated as "The Children of the Alley," the protagonist, Arafa, symbolizes modern science, and is claimed by the followers of the prophets who came before him as one of their own. This man's later works included Arabian Days and Nights and The Journey of Ibn Fatouma, which drew on traditional Arabic narratives for subtexts, and Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, which discussed the ideological battle between old and new religious truths. For 10 points, name this Egyptian author of The Cairo Trilogy and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Output (English): Social Science