Farouk Gouida (born 10 February 1946) is an Egyptian poet. Gouida's newspaper columns - criticising the privatization of state assets by politicians such as Atef Ebeid and Ahmed Nazif - were collected in Raping a Country (2010).[1] Writing in May 2011, Gouida characterized Hosni Mubarak's regime as guilty of "three crimes": floating the Egyptian pound in 2003; misusing public banks to grant easy loans to favoured businessmen; and indiscriminate privatization.[2]

In March 2012, he was announced as one of the members of the Constituent Assembly of Egypt.[3] He criticised the composition of the assembly, suggesting that 15 assembly members be replaced with constitutional law professors and legal experts.[4] and resigned from it in protest of the complementary constitutional declaration (November 2012).[5] In August he was reported by Al-Ahram as having turned down an offer from President Morsi to be culture secretary.[6]

Works

  • Raping a Country: Crimes of Land Pillaging in Egypt, 2010

References

  1. ↑ Noha El-Hennawy, Farouk Gouida’s Raping a Country: A rant about misappropriation of public properties, Egypt Independent, 13 October 2010.
  2. ↑ Noha El-Hennawy, Sunday's papers: Economic crisis, Mubarak regime corruption and army's right to vote, Egypt Independent, 8 May 2011
  3. ↑ Gamal Essam El-Din, Final list of Constituent Assembly members , Ahram Online, 26 March 2012
  4. ↑ Truncated constituent assembly wraps up first session, Ahram Online, 28 March 2012
  5. ↑ "فاروق محمد جويدة". scc.gov.eg.
  6. ↑ Noha El-Hennawy, Thursday's papers: Eyes on the Cabinet, Egypt Independent, 2 August 2012.
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