Biographies: Suzanne Taha Hussein - Writer

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Suzanne Taha Hussein (née Brisseau) was the wife of the Dean of Arabic Literature, Taha Hussein, whom she married for nearly 60 years. She was born in 1895 and brought up a French Catholic. She worked as a teacher at the beginning of her career. The events of the First World War caused her to flee with her family to the city of Montpellier in southern France. In 1915, she met Taha Hussein, a blind Egyptian graduate student who needed someone to read him books and references that would help him complete his studies, and she was the one who played the role of a reader for him from that time until his death in 1973. She co-wrote the radio series I Would Love to Talk to You.

• 18 October 2021
• Christina Aziz