Fawzi Habashi
Fawzi Habashi (* 1924 in Sharouna, al-Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt ) is an Egyptian civil engineer who, however, has been under constant observation by the Egyptian authorities since his university days, first as a nationalist fighting the British colonial power and then as a communist .
Life
Habashi comes from a Coptic family . He attended high school in the district capital of Minya and then studied at what was then Fuad I University (now Cairo University ) in Cairo . He graduated from university in 1946. While studying in Cairo, he lived with his cousin, the writer and critic of the regime, Louis Awad .
Habashi spent 10 years of his life in Egyptian prisons or penal camps, the first three years in May 1948 under King Faruk , including in the Hakestep camp set up by the British in the Western Desert of Egypt. He was persecuted as a communist under Generals Muhammad Nagib and Gamal Abdel Nasser and in 1959 spent some time in the same cell with his cousin Awad. In the following four years he also spent some time in the new Al-Wahat prison , also in the desert. Nasser's successors Anwar as-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak also had the activist arrested several times, most recently in 1987. Habashi was not allowed to report on this last two-month stay when his book was published in 2004. His cell mates were among others the folk poet Fouad Haddad , the poet Sunallah Ibrahim and Osama El-Ghazali Harb .
In 2011 a Berlin publisher published Habashi's life story Muataqal kol Al-Usour (Prisoner of All Epochs) in English translation , which had already been published in 2004 by Dar Merit in Cairo. The report is a typical example of Arabic prison literature (adab as-sudschun).
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Hayati fi al-watan , en .: Prisoner in all Epochs , Dar Merit, Cairo, 2004, ISBN 9773511979 .
- Prisoner of all generations. My Life in the Homeland Egypt. Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87997-350-7 . (Studies on the Modern Orient 13)
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| SURNAME | Habashi, Fawzi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sharouna , Al-Minya District , Egypt |