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Fig. 2. Taha Hussein. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taha_Hussein.

barber [5]. He recounts this experience in a renowned autobiography entitled The Days, published in 1929 and since republished in multiple languages [5, 6].

Taha Hussein began his formal education in a religious school as an adolescent, but he was a prodigy, and his obvious brilliance allowed him to become one of the first matriculating students at the new Cairo University in 1908 [5]. He subsequently studied in Montpelier, where he met and married his lifelong companion, Suzanne Bresseau [5, 6], and then went on to obtain another doctoral degree from the Sorbonne in Paris before finally coming back to Egypt for good to become a Cairo University professor.

Taha Hussein led an extraordinary intellectual life. Among his accomplishments, he founded two Egyptian universities, Alexandria and Ein Shams University, and edited PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases &#124; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005072 December 1, 2016