Taha Hussein Museum is a historic house museum and biographical museum in Cairo

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, Egypt

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It is about the life, teaching, and residence of Taha Hussein (November 14, 1889—October 28, 1973) ˈseːn, tˤaːha ħusajn) (nicknamed "Dean of Arabic Literature").
He was one of the most influential 20th century Egyptian

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 writer

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s and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Al-Nahda—Arab Renaissance

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 and the modernist

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 movement in the Arab World

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External links

• TourEygpt.net: Taha Hussein biography, and the Taha Hussein Museum
• Egyptian Museum.net: Taha Hussein Museum

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