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    Taha Hussein (Egyptian Arabic: [ˈtˤɑːhɑ ħ(e)ˈseːn], Arabic: طه حسين; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was one of the most influential 20th-century...
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  • sport wrestler Taha Al-Abid, Palestinian poet Taha Hussein (1889-1973), Egyptian writer and intellectual Taha Malik, Pakistani-American record producer,...
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    Can hold up to 8 million books. The Arts and Multimedia Library The Taha Hussein Library for the visually impaired The Children's Library The Young People's...
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    one of the first contemporary writers in Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He is the only Egyptian to win...
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    Ottoman Iraq Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer and Arabic literary scholar Youssef Hussein (born 1988), Egyptian comedian Saddam Hussein, former President...
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    Taha Hussein Museum is a historic house museum and biographical museum in Cairo, Egypt. It is about the life, teaching, and residence of Taha Hussein...
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  • individuals (Hodgson). Some have described him as semi-legendary or legendary (Taha Hussein, Bernard Lewis, Wilferd Madelung, Leone Caetani, and Shia historians)...
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  • Taha Hussein Yaseen (Arabic: طه حسين ياسين; born 1 January 1998) is an Iraqi sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He represented his country at the...
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    incorporating anti-colonial sentiment. Pharaonism's most notable advocate was Taha Hussein. The movement largely faded by the 1940s, having failed to resonate with...
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    Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (Arabic: طه ياسين رمضان الجزراوي; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi politician and militia commander, who served...
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  • biological weapons programs. It was Taha who sold the idea of an Iraqi biological weapons program to Saddam Hussein and was given an award for her work...
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    الكروان)(The Call of the Curlew) is a novel by Taha Hussein, an Egyptian writer, published in 1934. Taha Hussein dedicated it to the writer Abbas Al-Akkad...
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  • The Days (book) (category Books by Taha Hussein)
    a novelized autobiography in three volumes by the Egyptian professor Taha Hussein, published between 1926 and 1967. It deals with his childhood in a small...
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    Uthman ibn Abduh ibn Husayn ibn Taha al-Halyabi (or Uthman Taha, Arabic: عثمان طه) is a Qazaq descent calligrapher of the Quran in the Arabic language...
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  • 1963 The Days (Arabic: Al-Ayyam), the autobiography of Egyptian writer Taha Hussein Al Ayam (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • hold concerts there in 1936. There, they gained the attention of Dr. Taha Hussein and Umm Kulthum. Their stay in Egypt lasted six months. Khalil Rokz,...
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  • On Pre-Islamic Poetry (category Books by Taha Hussein)
    literary criticism published in 1926 by the Egyptian author Taha Hussein. In it, Hussein argued that some poetry believed to date from the pre-Islamic...
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    Abduh and Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, were Qasim Amin, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Taha Hussein, Abbas el-'Akkad, Tawfiq el-Hakeem, and Salama Moussa. They delineated...
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  • censorship or persecution. The interwar period featured writers such as Taha Hussein, author of Al-Ayyām, Ibrahim al-Mazini, Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad, and Tawfiq...
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    of Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr was published in 1956 under the leadership of Taha Hussein. The project is not yet complete; its 15th volume, covering the letter...
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    such as Tawfiq al-Hakim (author of the Symbolist play Shahrazad, 1934), Taha Hussein (Scheherazade's Dreams, 1943) and Naguib Mahfouz (Arabian Nights and...
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    particularly Hamka, his elementary teacher. According to notable Arab Linguist Taha Hussein (1889–1973 C.E), the Wahhabi movement was new, yet simultaneously old...
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    (awarded in 1957), Leonid Leonov, Enrique González Martínez, Alfonso Reyes, Taha Hussein, and Alberto Moravia. Three of the nominees were women: Marie Under,...
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  • of 1952, when its name was changed to the University of Alexandria. Taha Hussein was the founding rector of Alexandria University. It is now the second...
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    as Professor of History of Arabic Literature, Taha Hussein was introduced by Sarwat. In 1926, Taha Hussein highly controversial book “On Pre-Islamic Poetry”...
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    Uday Saddam Hussein (Arabic: عدي صدام حسين; 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician and the elder son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous...
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    Free education at Al-Balagh in May, 1930, nearly two decades before Taha Hussein, then the Egyptian minister of education started implementing it. In...
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    knowledge. Even though the play is now considered one of his finest works, Taha Hussein, a prominent Arab writer and one of the leading intellectuals of the...
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    buildings with heights of up to 30 metres. The north–south access of Taha Hussein Street formed a new linear central area that was intended to represent...
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    a supporter of the Egyptian liberal movement. Salama Moussa is from Taha Hussein's generation; Naguib Mahfouz called Salama Moussa his "spiritual father"...
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