Biographies: Farouk Al Qadi - Writer

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Egyptian writer born in 1928. He studied at Cairo University (Fouad I University at the time) and worked as a journalist at Rose Al Youssef, El Masaa, El Shaab, and El Gomhoureya newspapers. He was a star journalist who covered major events in places like Syria in 1958 and Congo in 1960, he was also the first Egyptian journalist to interview Yugoslavian ex-president Josip Broz Tito in 1953 and Soviet politician Nikita Khrushchev in 1956. He also worked in the media department of the Palestinian party Fatah, and as an adviser to ex-president of Palestine Yasser Arafat. He retired from politics in 1984 to devote himself to writing, and he published two books in 2002 and 2004. One of his works was adapted into the film Lovers of Life (1971).

• 21 September 2021
• Maryam Nouhy