Suzan Taha Hussein سوزان طه حسين

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An Egyptian writer and the wife of the Dean of Arabic Literature, Taha Hussein whom she accompanied for nearly 60 years. She was born in 1895 and brought up a French Catholic. She worked as a teacher at the beginning of her career. The events of the First World War caused her to...Read more flee with her family to the city of Montpellier in southern France. In 1915, she met Taha Hussein, a blind Egyptian graduate student, who needed someone to read him books and references that would help him complete his studies, and she was the one who played the role of a reader for him from that time until his death in 1973. She co-wrote the radio series I'd Like To Talk To You.


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  • An Egyptian writer and the wife of the Dean of Arabic Literature, Taha Hussein whom she accompanied for nearly 60 years. She was born in 1895 and brought up a French Catholic. She...Read more worked as a teacher at the beginning of her career. The events of the First World War caused her to flee with her family to the city of Montpellier in southern France. In 1915, she met Taha Hussein, a blind Egyptian graduate student, who needed someone to read him books and references that would help him complete his studies, and she was the one who played the role of a reader for him from that time until his death in 1973. She co-wrote the radio series I'd Like To Talk To You.

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