The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest libraries worldwide, which was lost in antiquity. The idea of reviving the old library dates back to 1974, when a committee set up by Alexandria University selected a plot of land for its new library. Construction work began in 1995 and, after some US$220 million had been spent, the complex was officially inaugurated on 16 October 2002. In 2010, the library received a donation of 500,000 books from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The gift makes the Bibliotheca Alexandrina the sixth-largest Francophone library in the world.
Taha Hussein was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Egyptian Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Middle East and North Africa. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" . He was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature fourteen times.
The Future of Culture in Egypt is a 1938 book by the Egyptian writer Taha Hussein.
Alexandria University is a public university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University, becoming an independent entity in 1942. It was known as Farouk University until the 1952 when its name was changed to the University of Alexandria. Taha Hussein was the founding rector of Alexandria University. It is now the second largest university in Egypt and has many affiliations to various universities for ongoing research.
Shadwan is a barren rocky island 30 miles southwest of the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula and 20 miles northeast of El Gouna. It is the largest of a group of islands in the mouth of the Gulf of Suez in the northern Red Sea and measures 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) in length, and between 3–5 kilometres (1.9–3.1 mi) wide. It was formerly also called Shaker Island and features a lighthouse. The island is famous as a touristic site for underwater diving and fishing.
Taaha is the combination of two letters "Ta" and "Ha". It is the first verse of the surah Ta-Ha and one of the Muqattaʿat; thus the meaning of the name is unknown and, according to Islamic belief, it is the name of a secure secret held by God.
Ahmed Shawki Museum is a writer's house museum dedicated to the poet and dramatist Ahmed Shawki (1869–1932).
Om Kalthoum Museum is a biographical museum in Giza, near Cairo, Egypt. The Om Kalthoum Museum is dedicated to Umm Kulthum, or Om Kalthoum, the famous Egyptian singer, songwriter, and actress.
The Qasr Al-Eini Museum is a historical medical museum in Cairo, Egypt.
The Institut d'Égypte or Egyptian Scientific Institute is a learned society in Cairo specializing in Egyptology. It was established in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte to carry out research during his Egyptian campaign and is the oldest scientific institute in Egypt. The building in which it was housed was burnt down, with the loss of many documents, during the Arab Spring unrest of 2011. It reopened in December 2012.
Mostafa Kamel Taha Yossef El-Gamal was an Egyptian football forward who played for Egypt in the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Al-Mokhtalat SC, and represented Egypt at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
The Egyptian National Military Museum is the official museum of the Egyptian Army.
Shaykh Mustafa Abd al-Rizq was an Egyptian Islamic philosopher.
The Egyptian journal al-Katib al-misri was published in Cairo monthly in the period 1945–1948. It featured articles on literature, arts and science. Although its publisher was Jewish, the magazine did not emphasize this fact. However, Taha Hussein, editor of the magazine, was accused of being part of the Zionist movement due to his post.
Arrissalah was an Arabic weekly cultural magazine for literature, science, and art published in Cairo from 1933 to 1953. It has been described as "the most important intellectual weekly in the 1930s Egypt and the Arab world."
The Days is a novelized autobiography in three volumes by the Egyptian professor Taha Hussein, published between 1926 and 1967. It deals with his childhood in a small village, then his studies in Egypt and France. It is one of the most popular works of modern Arabic literature.
On Pre-Islamic Poetry is a book of literary criticism published in 1926 by the Egyptian author Taha Hussein. In it, Hussein argued that some pre-Islamic poetry was inauthentic, and cast doubt on the authenticity of the Quran. The book's publication caused a major literary controversy in Egypt.
The Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo is a language academy for Arabic created in Cairo, Egypt in 1932 by Fuad I of Egypt. It publishes Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and Al-Mu'jam al-Wasīt, two of the most important dictionaries of the Arabic language.
The 2021 FIFA Arab Cup is an international football tournament held in Qatar from 30 November to 18 December 2021. The 16 national teams involved in the tournament are required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers, selected from an initial provisional list of 35 players. Only players in these squads are eligible to take part in the tournament.
Al Siyasa was an Arabic newspaper which was the official media outlet of the now-defunct Liberal Constitutional Party. The paper was in circulation from 1922 to 1951.
