← Taha HusseinThe Daysby Taha HusseinAutobiographical novel depicting a blind Egyptian writer's childhood struggles and educationFind on Amazon↗About the authorTaha HusseinEgyptian 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.More by Taha HusseinThe 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→
