| Toqa Hesham |
An Egyptian scholar and translator of Andalusian studies, born in Qena Governorate in Upper Egypt. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University in 1949. Dr. Taha Hussein sent him on a scholarship to Spain in 1950 as part of the first Egyptian mission to study Spanish literature. He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Madrid in 1955. He was one of the first to contribute to establishing the Spanish Language Department at the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University in 1984. He was its first dean and supervised its first scientific thesis. Makki had worked as a cultural attaché to Egypt in Madrid, where he was appointed agent of the Egyptian Institute in Madrid and became director of the Translation and Publishing Department at the Ministry of Culture in the sixties. He died in Madrid, Spain, on August 8, 2013.
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