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

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of state assets by politicians such as Atef Ebeid and

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

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'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 ''

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'' as having turned down an offer from President Morsi to be culture secretary.Noha El-Hennawy
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'', 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