num_pages: 144
description: Taha Hussein (1889-1973), blind from early childhood, rose from humble beginnings to pursue a distinguished career in Egyptian public life, but he was most influential through his voluminous, varied, and controversial writings. The stories in The Sufferers were first published in the periodical al-Katib al-Masri in 1946, but were banned by the government when collected in book form in 1947. The collection was finally published in Lebanon, and was only published in Egypt after the 1952 Revolution.
language: English
title: The Sufferers: Stories and Polemics
titlecomplete: The Sufferers: Stories and Polemics
genres: Africa, Egyptian Literature, Egypt
ratings_count: 37
publisher: The American University in Cairo Press