Fouad Haddad

For the Lebanese neurosurgeon and humanitarian, see Fuad Sami Haddad.

Fouad Haddad (Arabic: فؤاد حداد, romanized: Fuʼād Ḥaddād; 1927–1985) was an Egyptian poet, who wrote in the Egyptian vernacular.

Fouad Haddad
فؤاد حداد
Born	1927 (1927) Cairo
Died	1985 (aged 57–58)
Occupation(s)	poet and writer

Life

Fouad Haddad was born in Cairo. His mother came from a Syrian family and his father was a Lebanese academic who later became an Egyptian citizen.^[1]

He joined the Egyptian Communist Party, and was jailed from 1953 to 1956 and 1959 to 1964. He collaborated with the composer Sayed Mekkawi, providing lyrics for Al-Masararati, a show broadcast on Egyptian National Radio and subsequently turned a television programme.^[1]

Fouad Haddad and his friend, the poet Salah Jaheen, were the subject of a 2011 television documentary by Dinah Hamza.^[2]

References

1. Amira El-Noshokaty, Wake up, sleepyhead! Archived 2013-05-07 at the Wayback Machine, Al-Ahram Weekly, No. 913 (4–10 September 1998)
2. Documentary on famed Egyptian poets Haddad and Jaheen to air, ONTV, Ahram Online, 21 April 2011