American author Helen Keller, star-struck to meet and handshake her literary hero Taha Hussein, Dean of Arabic literature & Minister of Education, Cairo 1952
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American author Helen Keller, star-struck to meet and handshake her literary hero Taha Hussein, Dean of Arabic literature & Minister of Education, Cairo 1952
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In a letter to Raverat in 1952:
” For years I had read about Taha Hussein Pasha, and I cannot express my delight one day when he visited me at the Semiramis Hotel, bringing his wife and son, and stayed a whole hour. I was privileged to touch his face, and how handsome, scholarly and full of inward light it was! His responsive tenderness warmed my heart, and I felt as if I had known him always. We discussed many topics — Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato and Socrates, the liberating power of philosophy, Taha Hussein’s studies of the great blind Arab philosopher of the tenth century and his work for the blind. He told me that while he was Minister of Education, he had worked quietly enabling capable blind persons to go to universities and colleges, and that he was still deeply interest in that measure. He said that one of the chief needs of blind students in Egypt was secondary schools from which they could go to finish their education in college. It was a precious boon to me to feel Taha Hussein’s personality behind me when I called on various ministers of the Government and begged them to authorize those secondary schools. Finally the Minister of Education promised me that those schools would be opened, and Mr. Fattah was confident in his assurance that it would be done.
Polly and I took tea with the Noor society for the Blind in a delightful garden where there was a swimming-pool. To my surprise the President, Mr. Shalen, a handsome, distinguished man, paid me an exquisitely poetic tribute in which he said Louis Braille and I were the two eyes of the blind of the world, and I received from him and the Society a captivating little statue of the wife of King Akhnaton, the noblest soul that ever sat on the Egyptian throne!…”
Hussein conquered darkness, challenged disability, called for free education, achieved a global literary status and occupied the position of Minister of Education and the Deanship of Arabic Literature thanks to his knowledge.
That’s so cool seeing her excited expression lol
Who was the most frustrated ghost ever?
The one that haunted Helen Keller’s house.
Yes, I’m an animal but those Helen Keller jokes were big(and wrong) at one time
I thought that was Tom Hanks at first.