Egypt has a culture which is international but which, at th… - Taha Hussein

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Egypt has a culture which is international but which, at the same time, reflects the calm, eternal personality of ancient Egypt. It can nourish and enlighten other peoples and afford them a kind of pleasure which they may or may not be able to derive from their own cultures.

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Taha Hussein (November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world.

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It would be a waste of time and effort to set forth in detail the ties binding Egypt to the ancient Greco-Aegean civilization.

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