The Last NahdawiTaha Hussein (18891973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures. A graduate of al Azhar, Egypt's oldest university, a civil servant and public intellectual, and ultimately Egyptian Minister of Public Instruction, Hussein was central to key social and political developments in Egypt during the parliamentary period between 1922 and 1952. Influential in the introduction of a new secular university and a burgeoning press in Egyptand prominent in public