Mr. Ahmed and forty blind .. Strange tale of Egypt

Here at the light in Cairo tales stranger than fiction, but perhaps the most prominent and the most important and most attractive and glamorous is the story of the blind with Ahmed and his friends forty blind.

With Ahmed and his brothers who made their own will force all of the epic seen to stand in front of them an appreciation and respect they have succeeded in managing the printing press could leave hundreds of thousands of books annually, which will benefit the blind school students in particular are becoming Mtabatthm first and most important in the Arab World and the Middle East

Ahmed Abdullah, Head of Press and model center for the Blind, who is also blind, now 52 years old is the oldest working Palmtabap he joined in 1960 with Ahmed say about his experience and his career: In the beginning there were difficulties, but thanks to God and will strong and determination I was able to break these all obstacles in order to Sadftni great love for this area, thank God, and you beat the first installment, which joined the center model for the Blind.

And trained by Nicholas Basile, a senior expert in the field of printing and began working in the printing of the reference sheets that you write it in Braille and then gradually to work and become a writer on the sheets and then joined the Faculty of Arts, Department of Arabic and obtained his BA and a diploma from the College of Education Ain Shams University and obtained a diploma in curricula and teaching methods, and the grace of God became the director of the press.

And the date of the printing press printing press say date back to the blind in Egypt in 1953 based on an agreement between Egypt and the United Nations.


This has been a printing press is the only leader in the Arab world for several years, when they print the curriculum for the blind from the first grade of primary and secondary education up to grade III in Braille in all disciplines taught by sighted a basic task, which established for them.

It also edits and preparation of the blind and print magazines a month and one for adults and other young blind .. in addition to some books and novels for older writers such as Anis Mansour, Yousef al-Sibai, Naguib Mahfouz.

We also print the Holy Quran and printed books of the books of the Hadith, the books Riad righteous and the attainment of the intended meaning.

Ahmed says with the printing press, with more than 40 blind and they represent 80% of workers Palmtabap and are trained extensively to work with Palmtabap Talehm how to avoid the risk of machines they are here performing their skill fascinates both see them.