Farouk Gouida (born 10 February 1946) is an Egyptian poet. Gouida's newspaper columns - criticising the

privatization Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...

of state assets by politicians such as

Atef Ebeid Atef Muhammad Ebeid ( ar, عاطف محمد عبيد, ) (14 April 1932 – 12 September 2014) was an Egyptian politician who served in various capacities in the governments of Egypt. He was Prime Minister of Egypt from 1999 to 2004. Early life a ...

and

Ahmed Nazif Ahmed Nazif ( ar, أحمد نظيف, ; born 8 July 1952) served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011, when his cabinet was dismissed by President Hosni Mubarak in light of a popular uprising that led to the Egyptia ...

- were collected in ''Raping a Country'' (2010). Writing in May 2011, Gouida characterized

Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in t ...

's regime as guilty of "three crimes": floating the

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in 2003; misusing public banks to grant easy loans to favoured businessmen; and indiscriminate privatization. In March 2012, he was announced as one of the members of the

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. He criticised the composition of the assembly, suggesting that 15 assembly members be replaced with constitutional law professors and legal experts. and resigned from it in protest of the complementary constitutional declaration (November 2012). In August he was reported by ''

Al-Ahram ''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...

'' as having turned down an offer from President Morsi to be culture secretary.Noha El-Hennawy
Thursday's papers: Eyes on the Cabinet
'' Egypt Independent'', 2 August 2012.

Works

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gouida, Farouk Egyptian journalists Egyptian male poets Members of the Egyptian Constituent Assembly of 2012 Living people 1946 births