Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Taha Hussein, blind from childhood, rose from humble beginnings to a distinguished career in Egyptian public life, particularly as Minister of Education. This collection of his writings, first published in the periodical "Al-Katib Al-Masri" in 1946, was originally banned by the Egyptian government...read more

The author recounts his experiences growing up in a small village in Upper Egypt, coming to terms with his blindness, and qualifying for study at al-Azhar University in Cairo

Product Description: An Egyptian Childhood, the first volume of Taha Hussein's autobiography, is full of the sounds and smells of rural Egypt. It documents Hussein's childhood and early education in a small village in Upper Egypt, as he learns not only to come to terms with his blindness but to excel in spite of it and win a place at the prestigious university of al-Azhar in Cairo...read more