Fouad Haddad
{{Short description|Egyptian poet}}
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| native_name = فؤاد حداد
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| native_name_lang = Arabic
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1927}}
| birth_place = Cairo
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1985|1927}}
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| occupation = poet and writer
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Fouad Haddad ({{langx|ar|فؤاد حداد|Fuʼād Ḥaddād}}; 1927–1985) was an Egyptian poet, who wrote in the Egyptian vernacular.
Life
Fouad Haddad was born in Cairo. His mother came from a Syrian family and his father was a Lebanese academic who later became an Egyptian citizen.Amira El-Noshokaty, [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/913/li11.htm Wake up, sleepyhead!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507212217/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/913//li11.htm |date=2013-05-07 }}, Al-Ahram Weekly, No. 913 (4–10 September 1998)
He joined the Egyptian Communist Party, and was jailed from 1953 to 1956 and 1959 to 1964. He collaborated with the composer Sayed Mekkawi, providing lyrics for Al-Masararati, a show broadcast on Egyptian National Radio and subsequently turned a television programme.
Fouad Haddad and his friend, the poet Salah Jaheen, were the subject of a 2011 television documentary by Dinah Hamza.[http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/32/10436/Arts--Culture/Film/Documentary-on-famed-Egyptian-poets-Haddad-and-Jah.aspx Documentary on famed Egyptian poets Haddad and Jaheen to air, ONTV], Ahram Online, 21 April 2011
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Category:20th-century Egyptian poets
Category:Egyptian people of Syrian descent
Category:20th-century Syrian poets