Taha Hussein
Egyptian writer and intellectual, the 'Dean of Arabic Literature,' whose autobiography The Days is a classic of Arabic prose. Blind from childhood, he became Egypt's most influential modernizing voice in literature and education.
Works
- The DaysAutobiographical novel depicting a blind Egyptian writer's childhood struggles and education
- The Tree of Misery
- On Pre-Islamic PoetryCritical essay challenging traditional Arab literary scholarship on pre-Islamic poetry
- The Future of Culture in EgyptEssay on Western modernization, secularism, and Egyptian cultural development
- The Promise
- A Man of Letters
- The Sufferers