Taha Hussein
1889 - 1973
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Country of citizenship: Ottoman Empire, Sultanate of Egypt, Kingdom of Egypt, Republic of Egypt, United Arab Republic, Egypt
Educated at: Faculty of Arts of Paris, University of Montpellier, Cairo University, Al-Azhar University
Occupation: linguist, historian, translator, writer, literary critic, university teacher, politician, literary scholar, novelist, literary historian
Award received: Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile, Order of Merit, Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar, Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic, Order of the Republic, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, honorary doctor of the University of Palermo, honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier, doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon
Position held: Minister of Education of Egypt, president of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo
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Taha Hussein (Egyptian Arabic: [ˈtˤɑːhɑ ħ(e)ˈseːn], Arabic: طه حسين; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" (Arabic: عميد الأدب العربي). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-one times. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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