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About Farouk Shousha
- Farouk Shousha (Arabic: ????? ?????; January 9, 1936 – October 14, 2016) was an Egyptian poet.
- He hosted the popular television program Umsiya Thaqafiya ("Cultural Evening") from 1977 through 2006.Shousha was born in Damietta, where he attended kuttab.
- He credited the kuttab with having provided him "a strong foundation of language".
- When a cholera epidemic led to his confinement at home, Shousha read poetry to pass the time.
- Afterwards, he began a programmatic reading of Arabic poetry at the local library, where he read everything from the pre-Islamic period through contemporary poets.
- Of the Damietta library, Shousha related that, "It was there that my first poems were born."Shousha attended Dar al-Ulum, where he became known as the Students' Poet.
- After graduation, he began working as a radio presenter.
- Eventually, he rose to be Director of Egyptian Radio.
- Later, Shousha entered the field of television.
- Throughout his media career, Shousha was associated with cultural and literary programs.In 2005, Shousha was named Secretary-General of the Arabic Language Academy, a body described by Al-Ahram Weekly as "the guardians of the language".
- In his role as Secretary-General, Shousha was critical of what he considered to be a decline in the quality of Arabic in Egypt, a problem he attributed to radio and television announcers, poor teaching standards and the lack of libraries in schools.
- Shousha described the problem as "an issue of national security".The first volume of Shousha's Collected Poems was published in 1985, and the second volume in 2007.
- Concerning the volumes' publication, Shousha remarked, "I am happy to be honored during my lifetime, not, as is the case with so many intellectuals, long after I die."In 2018, in his honor, Google changed its logo to a doodle of him in nine countries across the Middle East on what would have been his 82 birthday.
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