Taha Hussein
طه حسين
Writer
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Egypt
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Cairo,
Egypt
Blind Egyptian writer and intellectual known as the "Dean of Arabic Literature," whose memoir Al-Ayyam is a landmark of modern Arabic prose.
Taha Hussein, blind from early childhood, became one of the most influential intellectuals in the modern Arab world, and his autobiography Al-Ayyam remains a foundational text of modern Arabic literature and educational reform.
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Independent