Eltaher with the Lebanese Druze and pan Islamic nationalist Emir Shakib Arslan; the Egyptian children books author Kamel Kilani and Mohamed El-Hehyaoui, Editor-in-Chief of the Egyptian newspaper "Al-Omma". Note Eltaher’s cat sitting on top of the radio at the old Ashoura office in Cairo in 1939.
The Eltahers loved animals, and kept a cat wherever they went. Even when he was a fugitive, Eltaher kept a cat in his hideout, which he named “Habissa”, i.e. “prisoner”!
