Taha Hussein: 2 books
The Sufferers
Stories and Polemics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Taha Hussein (1889-1973), blind from early childhood, rose from humble beginnings to pursue a distinguished career in Egyptian public life, but he was most influential through his voluminous, varied, and controversial writings. The stories in The Sufferers were first published in the periodical al-Katib...
The Days
His Autiobiography in Three Parts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
For the first time, the three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is available in a single paperback volume. The first part, An Egyptian Childhood (1929), is full of the sounds and smells of rural Egypt. It tells of Hussein's childhood and early education in a...