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Also Known As Ṭaha Ḥussein • Taha Husain
Born November 14, 1889 • Egypt • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died October 28, 1973 (aged 83) • Cairo • Egypt
Notable Works “Fi al-shiʾr al-Jāhilī” • “The Days” • “The Future of Culture in Egypt”
Subjects Of Study Arabic literature • poetry
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser
president of Egypt
Al-Lahun: pyramid of Sesostris II
Sesostris II
king of Egypt
Amenemhet III
Amenemhet III
king of Egypt
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Macedonian king of Egypt
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
American author
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Amyrtaeus of Sais
king of Egypt
Sculpted head of Akhenaten, ancient Egyptian pharaoh, with elongated facial features and a tall, ornate headdress, displayed at the Alexandria National Museum.
Akhenaten
king of Egypt
Ramses II
Ramses II
king of Egypt
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a suit and gold tie, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
president of Egypt
Map showing the extent of the Ancient Egyptian Empire during the New Kingdom period of Thutmose III, highlighted in orange, covering Egypt, the Nile River valley, Sinai, and stretching northeast through Palestine, Phoenicia, and Syria. The map also marks the Fertile Crescent and neighboring regions such as Assyria and Babylonia in pink, with key cities and geographic features labeled.
Thutmose III
king of Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
Hosni Mubarak
president of Egypt
Saad Zaghloul
Saad Zaghloul
Egyptian statesman
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, wearing a suit and tie, speaks at a podium labeled Clinton Global Initiative with a microphone in front of him.
Mohamed Morsi
president of Egypt
Engraving of Mohammed Ali, founder of modern Egypt, shown with a full white beard, wearing a traditional hat and embroidered jacket, facing slightly to the viewer's left.
Muḥammad ʿAlī
pasha and viceroy of Egypt
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut
ruler of Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat
president of Egypt
Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official