Taha Hussein (1889-1973) is a famous Egyptian writer, literary critic, historian and philosopher. At the age of three he lost his sight. He graduated from the Islamic University “Al-Azhar” and Cairo University. He is author of the novel “The Days”, collections of short stories “The dead love” and “Martyrs of the earth ”, the novel “The Call of the turtledove” and others. He translated a number of works of ancient and French writers. An important area of creativity of Taha Hussein was the literary publicism.