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).Noha El-Hennawy, Farouk Gouida’s Raping a Country: A rant about misappropriation of public properties , Egypt Independent, 13 October 2010. 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.Noha El-Hennawy, Sunday's papers: Economic crisis, Mubarak regime corruption and army's right to vote, Egypt Independent, 8 May 2011
In March 2012, he was announced as one of the members of the Constituent Assembly of Egypt.Gamal Essam El-Din, Final list of Constituent Assembly members , Ahram Online, 26 March 2012 He criticised the composition of the assembly, suggesting that 15 assembly members be replaced with constitutional law professors and legal experts.Truncated constituent assembly wraps up first session, Ahram Online, 28 March 2012 and resigned from it in protest of the complementary constitutional declaration (November 2012). In August he was reported by Al-Ahram 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
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