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Taha Husein is rightly regarded as the father of modern Arabic
literature and his work is widely used as introductory texts for
students of the language. In this highly original book, Dr Mahmoudi
describes Husein's cultural and intellectual journey through his
education in Egypt and France. Husein's humanism and modernism can
be traced from his time at the al Azhar through his time in the
influential circle of Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid to his famous study
mission to France, where he witnessed the twilight of positivism.
Taha Husein's Education will add to our understanding of this great
Egyptian author and the contexts that shaped and informed his
thought.
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After Coffee (Paperback)
Abdelrashid Mahmoudi
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Medhat is an orphaned boy who grows up shuttling between various
farming families in the beautiful province of Sharkia, east of the
Nile Delta. What was intended to be a brief visit for the
five-year-old to Ismailia, a beautiful and cosmopolitan city in the
Suez Canal zone, ends up being the beginning of a nomadic life no
one could have imagined. Medhats journey takes him across the many
landmarks of Egypt and beyond, all the way to Vienna where he
discovers that his feelings of displacement still haunt him to the
core. In a narrative that interweaves aspects of Egyptian folklore,
epic prose, and classical literature, the author skillfully
presents the conflict between the man in exile who reflects
longingly on his history and origins, and the village boy who
belonged nowhere.
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