The sea of knowledge the egyptian author taha hussein warned as long ago as the 1930s that the future of egypt depended on reforming its education system. He is taken as a unique encyclopedic figure a selfeducated, he used to read in diff. Home articles, analysis, opinion displaying 476 500 of 10091 articles the headlines blare stories about political battles on college campuses in the u. That is why ive written a children s book that introduces kids to an array of famous authors including ones you may not have heard of. More than forty years later, hussein published a passage to france 1973, carrying the story on to his final attainment of a doctorate at the sorbonne, a saga of perseverance in the face of daunting odds. Abbas mahmoud elaqqad is one of the giants of the 20th century and a renowned figure in the illumination of human thought. The first part, an egyptian childhood 1929, is full of the sounds and smells of rural egypt. For the first time, the threepart autobiography of one of modern egypts. For the first time, the threepart autobiography of one of modern egypts greatest writers and thinkers is available in a single paperback volume. For his doctoral dissertation, written in 1917, hussein wrote on ibn khaldun, a tunisian historian, claimed by some to be the founder of sociology. The days ebook por taha hussein 9781617974700 rakuten kobo. Relationships between the united states and china have in no way been affected by the watergate affair, premier chou en. Taha hussein november 14, 1889october 28, 1973 arabic. In the year 1979, millions of egyptians mesmerized in front of their television sets watching a tv series about the life of a blind man from a subaltern village in upper egypt who fought against poverty, ignorance and illness to become a symbol of enlightenment in post colonial egypt.
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