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Taha Hussein --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article - English
URL: http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=405433

Though blinded by an illness at age two, he became a professor of Arabic literature at the secular University of Cairo, where his bold views often enraged Islamic religious conservatives. An outstanding figure of the modernist movement in Egyptian literature, he wrote novels, stories, criticism, and social and political essays. Outside Egypt he is best known for his autobiography, the two-part Al-Ayyam, published in English as An Egyptian Childhood (1932) and The Stream of Days (1943), which was the first modern Arab literary work to be acclaimed in the West.

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Taha Hussein - English
URL: http://members.lycos.co.uk/ejournal/taha.html

outstanding figure of the modernist movement in Egyptian literature. His writings, in Arabic, include novels, stories, criticism, and social and political essays. Outside his own country he is best known through his autobiography, al-Ayyam (2 parts, 1929-32). The first modern Arab literary work to be acclaimed in the West, it appeared in English as An Egyptian Childhood (1932) and The Stream of Days (1943).

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Egypt: The Ramatan - English
URL: http://www.touregypt.net/tahamuseum.htm

Taha Hussein Museum, Cairo, Egypt.

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Taha Hussein - English
URL: http://www.sis.gov.eg/egyptinf/culture/html/thussein.htm

Taha Hussein was born on October 28, 1898, in AI-Minya province, Upper Egypt, and grew up, the seventh of thirteen children, in a lower middle-class family. At a very early age, he contracted a simple eye infection and, due to faulty treatment by an unskilled local practitioner, was blinded, which caused him great anguish throughout his life.

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Modern History Sourcebook: Tahâ Hussein: From The Future of Culture in Egypt, 1954 - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1954taha.html

In order to become equal partners in civilization with the Europeans, we must literally and forthrightly do everything that they do; we must share with them the present civilization, with all its pleasant and unpleasant sides, and not content ourselves with words or mere gestures. ...For our national defense we need a strong army, one equal in men and equipment to that of any potential aggressor.

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Arab Gateway: Taha Hussein - English
URL: http://www.al-bab.com/arab/literature/hussein.htm

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Taha Hussein - English
URL: http://www.arabworldbooks.com/authors/taha_hussein.html

Dean of contemporary Arabic literature and a pioneer of enlightenment, Taha Hussein was born in AI-Minya province, Upper Egypt, on November 14th, 1889 and grew up, the seventh of thirteen children, in a lower middle-class family. At a very early age, he contracted a simple eye infection and, due to faulty treatment by an unskilled local practitioner, was blinded, at the age of three.

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